violoncello
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violoncellos
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Origin of violoncello
1715–25; < Italian, equivalent to violon ( e ) violone + -cello diminutive suffix
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It is a member of the viol family, lying midway between the violin and the violoncello.
From Time Magazine Archive
It does not have the alternate darkness and brightness of the violin or the alternate bass strength and majesty and tenor fervor of the violoncello, but preserves a characteristic romantic melancholy throughout.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the guests had taken their chairs, Casals bent over his 250-year-old Goffriller violoncello and, with a characteristic grimace, began to draw out the golden notes of Mendelssohn's Trio in D Minor.
From Time Magazine Archive
And then there's the all-female violoncello quartet known collectively as Cello.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three Trios for violin, viola, and violoncello, in G Major, D major, and C minor; ded. to the Count von Browne; pub.
From Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) by Elliott Graeme
He made over 1,000 violins, violas and violoncellos, and was commissioned by King James II and King Charles III of Spain, before his death in 1737.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021
The band consisted of fifty violins, twelve violas, twelve violoncellos, eleven double basses, twenty-five wind instruments, &c., making a total of 110 instruments, and a grand total of about 230 performers.
From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler
From his bench were sent out some seven thousand instruments, including tenors and violoncellos.
From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Aubertine Woodward Moore
The wood of the backs of his violoncellos is mostly pear tree, and the bellies are of splendid wood.
From Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Pearce
The new arrangement was eight first and eight second violins, six violas, four first and four second violoncellos, and four double basses.
From An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky
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