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viol da gamba|ˈvaɪəl də ˈgæmbə|
Also 6–7 de gambo, 7 di gambo, de gamboys; 7– de gamba, 9 di gamba.
[ad. It. viola da gamba ‘leg-viol’: cf. viola2 and gamba2.]
1. A viol held between the legs of the player while being played; in later use restricted to the bass viol corresponding to the modern violoncello.
1597J. Dowland (title), The Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres of foure partes with Tableture for the Lute: So made that all..may be song to the Lute, Orpherian or Viol de gambo. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iii. iii, Fast. I doe more..admire your..predominate perfections, than..euer I shall haue..facultie to expresse. Saui. Vpon the Violl de Gambo you meane? 1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. iii. 27 He playes o'th Viol-de-gamboys. 1611Coryat Crudities 252 Their instruments ten Sagbuts, foure Cornets and two Violdegambaes of an extraordinary greatnesse. 1662Playford Skill Mus. ii. (1674) 91 Of this Viol de Gambo there are three several sizes,..viz., Treble Viol, Tenor Viol, and Bass Viol... These three Viols agree in one manner of Tuning. 1774‘J. Collier’ Mus. Trav. 34, I think the effect was equal to any viol di gamba I ever heard. 1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. vii. 361 Charles I..had been a scholar of Coperario on the viol da gamba. 1801Busby Dict. Mus., Viol da Gamba, or Greater Viol, a viol with six strings, formerly much used in Germany. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVI. 343/2 Viol da Gamba..was the last survivor of the family of viols. 1908‘Aberdeen Jrnl.’ N. & Q. I. 32/1 The music ceased, and died away in a long note, like the stroke of a viol-de-gamba.
2. An organ-stop having a tone resembling that of the above instrument.
1852Seidel Organ 108 Viol di gamba, or simply gamba, is one of the finest registers. 1881C. A. Edwards Organs 157 The Viol-di-Gamba is soft, reedy, and sweet.
Hence viol da ˈgambist, one who plays the viol da gamba; a viola da gambist.
1915E. S. J. Van der Straeten Hist. Violoncello iii. 32 The next viol da gambist whose name has been handed down to posterity is Vincenzo Galilei... He was the father of Galileo Galilei and an excellent lutenist, gambist, composer and a very learned master of musical theory. |