Vielle

Word VIELLE
Character 6
Hyphenation vi elle
Pronunciations /viˈɛl/

Definitions and meanings of "Vielle"

What do we mean by vielle?

A medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin.

The hurdy-gurdy.

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The word "vielle" in example sentences

Among these were a diminutive harp, which was laid on the table while being played, the fiddle, also called vielle or viola (prototypes of our violin), the very ancient crwth, crowd or chrotta (an instrument having originally three, but later five strings, now obsolete), and the hurdy-gurdy. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

She told me the instrument was called the vielle, in fact -- our old English viol; a very ancient instrument, which is represented as being played by one of the minstrels sculptured on the east front of Launceston Parish ❋ Unknown (1879)

Unrelated story: When I was a bride in Quebec, using my school French and learning the local patois, my brother in law coached me in the following exchange while we were all dancing at a vielle: ❋ Unknown (2008)

Je suis une parente de 2 petite filles, et la plus vielle fille a commence la maternelle cet autumne! ❋ Unknown (2008)

A few moments of faulty tuning and uneven articulation aside (not to be confused with the pungent harmonies and piquant effects written into this music), the ensemble's two instrumentalists -- medieval-harpist Constance Whiteside (the group's artistic director) and violinist Craig Resta, who played here on the arrestingly throaty precursor to the violin, the medieval vielle -- both did sterling and vividly atmospheric work. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The painting portrays Renaissance instruments with great accuracy: a tenor or alto shawm, a precursor of the English horn; a Gothic harp; a brass trumpet; a portative organ; a vielle, an early form of violin; a soprano or treble shawm, a distant forerunner of the oboe; a lute; three recorders; a dulcimer being struck by a light hammer; and a harp. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ensemble La Rota, comprising Barnes, Tobie Miller (soprano vocals, hurdy-gurdy, recorder), tenor Esteban LaRotta (chitarino, harp) and Emilie Brule (vielle) approached the music from the point of view of working musicians. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Soprano Sarah Barnes, Tobie Miller (recorder/hurdy- gurdy), Emilie Brule (vielle) and Esteban La Rotta (lute/harp) will play examples of their specialty, the rarely heard virtuosic secular music of Medieval France. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Lead instruments like the psaltery (an early harp) and the vielle (a primitive violin with a characteristically scraping tone) are played over plucked-string rhythm instruments like the oud, rebab, and saz. ❋ Smg58 (2007)

As she moved to the second verse, Brule joined in on the vielle a sort of fiddle with roughly the range of a viola. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sinon en repartant du CSD une vielle dame a faillit se faire ecraser par une voiture ... enfin a la vitesse ou elle rulait la voiture je pense qu'il aurait pas roulé dessus mais carrement envoyé valdinguer a je sais pas combien de metre voir carrement passer a l'arriere de la voiture ... ❋ Pinku-tk (2005)

The old man had some fifty years ago been no mean performer upon the vielle, * and at the age he was then of, touched well enough for the purpose. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Our guilty parents fly before the flaming sword, -- poor Eve cowering, and her hair streaming in a wavy flood upon the wind; and before them, but unseen, Death leaps and curvets to the sound of a vielle or rote, -- an old musical stringed instrument, -- which he has hung about his neck. ❋ Various (N/A)

It was too hot and wild and shy a thing, too passionately set in its course, too homesick for the white fulgurant heights of Heaven to negate itself at the behest of French society and conform to what the academicians declared to be "la vielle tradition française." ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)

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