This instrument has prominent solos in Ralph Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi and Four Hymns.
This instrument has prominent solos in Ralph Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi and Four Hymns. At the end of Carl Orff's Play for the End of Time, a quartet of these instruments intones a canon, and Paul Hindemith was a skilled player of the "da gamba" form. Usually notated on the alto clef, in some countries this instrument is referred to as the alto. FTP, name this string instrument, about one-seventh larger than the violin and tuned a fifth lower.
This instrument has prominent solos in Ralph Vaughan Williams's Flos Campi and Four Hymns.
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