viola clef

[ vee-oh-luh ]

/ viˈoʊ lə /

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noun Music.

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Words nearby viola clef

vinylstyrene, viol, viola, violable, violaceous, viola clef, viola da braccio, viola da gamba, viola d'amore, violate, violation

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How to use viola clef in a sentence

Rare is the roman à clef where you think you can identify every single real person in it.
Newsweek Takedown From Beyond the Grave: Michael Hastings’s Fiction Tells the Truth|Christopher Dickey|June 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For a pair such as Viola and Perov, who have co-created work for decades, there is also precedent for retroactive co-authorship.
Why the Art World Ignores Wives|Jessica Dawson|March 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Few know that I also learned the viola, but gave it up after a year.
How I Write: Jared Diamond|Noah Charney|November 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I first began studying viola with Mr. K after fourth grade, after flaming out spectacularly at piano.
No More Coddling!|Joanne Lipman|October 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST

No one thought I could play the viola—until Mr K came into my life.
No More Coddling!|Joanne Lipman|October 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
You don't mind asking Viola to take your name, but you consider it an insult if you are asked to take my name.
First Plays|A. A. Milne
Voltaire describes his hero “qui tient sous la clef, la vertu de sa femme.”
The Swastika|Thomas Wilson
Sister Viola, I am glad to see you stirring: its news to have me here, ist not, sister?
The Mermaid Series. Edited by H. Ellis. The best plays of the old dramatists. Thomas Dekker. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Ernest Rhys.|Thomas Dekker
Punch did not acquit her Viola of a certain restlessness, but acknowledged that at times she acted like one inspired.
Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. IV of IV.|Charles L. Graves
Le jardin est petit, assez grand cependant pour moi, et j'ai une clef pour entrer aux jardins de Sans-Souci.
Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume II (of 2)|John Hill Burton

British Dictionary definitions for viola clef

viola clef

/ (vɪˈəʊlə) /

noun

another term for alto clef

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