"Gamba" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... discreetly in Brilliana's eyes as she gave the Puritan a bow for his praise. The Cavalier, a viola da gamba of anger, pegged his ...
— The Lady of Loyalty House - A Novel • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... drama and various festivities, and viols of diverse kinds were freely used. Shakespeare, in Twelfth Night, has Sir Toby enumerate among Sir Andrew Aguecheek's attractions skill on the viol-de-gamboys, Sir Toby's blunder for the viola da gamba, a fashionable bass viol held between the knees. A part was written for this instrument in Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and a number of celebrated performers on it are recorded in the eighteenth century. Two of these were ladies, Mrs. Sarah Ottey ...
— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore
... the bow free access to the side strings. The name too, fidula or vidula, from mediaeval Latin fides, "string," became fiddle and viola, the smaller viola being called violino, the larger, violoncello and viola da gamba. ...
— Critical & Historical Essays - Lectures delivered at Columbia University • Edward MacDowell
... Est tibi gamba capri, crus Passeris, & latus Apri, Os leporis, catuli nasus, dens & gena muli, Frons vetulae, tauri caput, & color vndique Mauri His argumentis, quibus est argutia mentis, Quod non a Monstro differs, ...
— The Survey of Cornwall • Richard Carew |
