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    The lyra viol is a small bass viol, used primarily in England in the seventeenth century. Described as "the smallest of the bass viols", one should consider...
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    division viols, and the still-smaller Lyra viol. The viola bastarda was a similar type of viol used in Italy for a virtuosic style of viol repertoire...
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  • members of the viol family include Baryton Division viol Lirone Lyra viol Pardessus de viol Vihuela de arco Violone Viola d'amore Byzantine lyra Calabrian...
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    William Lawes (category English viol players)
    most remembered today for his sublime viol consort suites for between three and six players and his lyra viol music. His use of counterpoint and fugue...
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    John Playford (1623-1686) - Parthenia, No. 7, Musicks Recreation on the Viol, Lyra-Way, 1669 Performed by Phillip W. Serna Problems playing this file? See...
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    mentions the division viol in his A Brief Introduction of 1667, describing it as smaller than a consort bass viol, but larger than a lyra viol. As suggested by...
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  • lutes. For example: The Byzantine lyra, the Calabrian lira, the Cretan lyra, the lira da braccio, and the lyra viol. "Yoke lutes or lyres". Musical Instrument...
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    Ayres & Lessons for the Lyra Viol ARION 2015: Marin Marais, Suites à Deux Violes (1686) Musica Ficta 2015 : Music for the Viol Lyra-Way - Musique inédite...
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    Tobias Hume (category Viol players)
    Russian armies. His published music includes pieces for viols (including many solo works for the lyra viol) and songs. They were gathered in two collections...
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  • John Jenkins (composer) (category English viol players)
    the court of King Charles I. Jenkins was considered a virtuoso on the lyra viol. Charles commented that Jenkins did "wonders on an inconsiderable instrument...
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  • Cunningham, John; Wolley, Andrew (2010). "A Little-known source of Restoration Lyra-Viol and Keyboard Music: Surrey History Centre, Woking, LM/1083/91/35". Royal...
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  • solo, in lyra-viol style, or for a consort of viols. One of the many lyra-viol tunings takes its name from him. This suggests that he was a lyra-violist...
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    Byzantine lyra, the Pontic lyra, the Constantinopolitan lyra, the Cretan lyra, the lira da braccio, the Calabrian lira, the lijerica, the lyra viol, the lirone...
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    The Cretan lyra (Greek: Κρητική λύρα) is a pear-shaped three-stringed Greek Violin, a traditional musical instrument, central to the traditional music...
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    Makoto Akatsu Gregorio Ibáñez Gómez Chest of viols Division viol Lyra viol Viola bastarda Pardessus de viole Viol Violone Barnett, Gregory (1998). "The Violoncello...
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    Uibo: drums, vocals Ravn: nyckelharpa, lyre, talharpa, moraharpa, gudok, lyra viol, harp, double harp Julien Loko [fr]: vocals, Irish bouzouki, talharpa...
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    Spain stringed instruments Viol Pardessus de viole Treble viol (dessus) Alto viol Bass viol Division viol Lyra viol Tenor viol (taille) Great bass violone...
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  • theatre, and a considerable amount of music for solo lyra viol or that was transcribed for lyra viol. Biography of Simon Ives Free scores by Simon Ives...
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  • Daniel Farrant (category English viol players)
    English composer, viol player and instrument maker. He invented types of citterns, the poliphant and the stump, along with the early lyra viol. He is also credited...
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    Baryton (redirect from Drone viol)
    The baryton is a bowed string instrument similar to the viol, but distinguished by an extra set of sympathetic but also pluckable strings. It was in regular...
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    instrument. Although Praetorius depicts the instrument as lyra de bracio with various viols "da gamba" (see image), it was in fact played on the shoulder...
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    Jordi Savall (category Viol players)
    Spirituel. Corelli. Telemann. Rameau (AVSA9877) 2010 – The Celtic Viol II. Treble Viol & Lyra Viol (AVSA9878) 2010 – Dinastia Borgia (AVSA9875) 2010 – Pièces...
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    Corkine (fl. 1610 - 1617) was an English composer, lutenist, gambist and lyra viol player of the Renaissance. In private service in the second decade of...
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  • music Lute Lute song Lydian augmented scale Lydian cadence Lydian mode Lyra viol Madrigal Madrigal (Trecento) Madrigal comedy Madrigale spirituale Maestoso...
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  • contains twelve songs, six duets for lute and viol, and seven pieces for lyra viol with optional bass viol Sulpitia Cesis born 1577, fl. 1619 Italian Antonio...
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    tenor-sized viol tuned as a bass) was often employed to play polyphonic music, Lyra-Way. When used in this fashion, the instrument was called lyra viol. The...
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    traditional linđo dance from the region. The lijerica's name comes from the lyra (Greek: λύρα), the bowed instrument of the Byzantine Empire which it probably...
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    published in two of John Playford's collections, Musick's Recreation on the Lyra Viol (1652) and Court Ayres (1655). Additional sheet music, including original...
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  • Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (category English viol players)
    one of the first to write lyra viol music in tablature, along with Coprario, and wrote a book of Lessons for the lyra viol. Ferrabosco continually had...
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    Divisions on the 'Barafostus Dream'; Alfonso Ferrabosco: Pieces for the lyra-viol; Orlando Gibbons: Fantasia for organ; Christopher Simpson: Prelude and...
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