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  • The biennial Boston Early Music Festival, which begins on Sunday, is best known for its lavish period productions of rare operas this year, it will be Agostino Steffani's "Niobe, Regina di Tebe" of 1688, visiting early-music luminaries like Jordi Savall, and its exhibition full of harpsichords, recorders and viols for sale.

    Second-Class Repertoire No More Heidi Waleson 2011

  • Français · Iran: Témoignages sur les tortures et les viols dans les prisons

    Global Voices in English » Iran: Testimonies of torture and rape 2009

  • “There are viols in your voice,” he said bluntly, and his eyes flashed their golden light.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • And the viols in her voice be the last sound in my ear.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • Français · Sri Lanka: Une nation baillonnée - Témoignages sur les viols

    Global Voices in English » Sri Lanka: A Suppressed Nation 2009

  • The biennial Boston Early Music Festival, which begins on Sunday, is best known for its lavish period productions of rare operas this year, it will be Agostino Steffani's "Niobe, Regina di Tebe" of 1688, visiting early-music luminaries like Jordi Savall, and its exhibition full of harpsichords, recorders and viols for sale.

    Second-Class Repertoire No More Heidi Waleson 2011

  • But viols usually had six strings, not the modern five.

    Album reviews: 17th century works for viola da gamba 2010

  • The viols, used mainly in Renaissance and baroque music, came in multiple sizes, like their modern-string descendants.

    Album reviews: 17th century works for viola da gamba 2010

  • Banners and flags for countries and duchies that may never have existed outside the imagination hung limp and faded above us, punctuated with fantastically intricate horns and cornets, viols with massive fretboards and bellies like lutes, all suspended in the air, left there by a vanished band of aerial players.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

  • The music of viols and hautboys and horns transported me out of the box where I was a little girl in a dirty dress and into that scene so completely, I thought I was dreaming.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

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