( ull KAHNT dulls oo-SAYCE) , or "The Song of the Birds", as an encore.
This instrument plays a lullaby-like melody in E major after taking it over from the piano in the first movement of an E minor Brahms chamber piece whose finale's main theme is based on Contrapunctus 13 from  The Art of the Fugue . An exiled performer of this instrument regularly played his arrangement of El cant dels ocells  ( ull KAHNT dulls oo-SAYCE) , or "The Song of the Birds", as an encore. Most modern performances of Baroque pieces use a continuo group that pairs either a (*) harpsichord or an organ with this instrument. It imitates a cantor chanting a liturgy in Max Bruch's  Kol Nidrei . J.S. Bach wrote six six-movement solo suites for this instrument, which was played by Mstislav ( MISS-tiss-lahv)  Rostropovich and Pablo Casals. For 10 points, name this instrument, the lowest-pitched member of a string quartet
This instrument plays a lullaby-like melody in E major after taking it over from the piano in the first movement of an E minor Brahms chamber piece whose finale's main theme is based on Contrapunctus 13 from  The Art of the Fugue .
 ello [or violonc ello;  accept plurals like c ellos  or c elli] 