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• Viola, Emmanuele
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Viola

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• Die viola alta oder altgeige. Ihr name, ihre geschichte, die grundsätze ihres baues, ihr wesen und ihre bedeutung als musikalisches ausdrucksmittel. Als anhang: Brief R. Wagner's an den verfasser. Aphorismen über die viola alta. Die Bagatella'schen geigenbauregeln. Hauptsächlichste musiklitteratur für die viola alta. (C. Merseburger, 1885), by Hermann Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traite de la viole, qui contient une dissertation curieuse sur son origine. Une demonstration generale de son manche en quatre figures, avec leurs explications. L'explication de ses jeux differents, & particulierement des pieces par accords, & de l'acompagnement a fond. Des regles certaines, pour connoitre tous les agremens qui se peuvent pratiquer sur cet instrument dans toutes sortes de pieces de musique. La veritable maniere de gouverner l'archet, & des moyens faciles pour transposer sur toutes sortes de tons (C. Ballard, 1687), by Jean Rousseau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Viola alta oder Altgeige (Verlag von Carl Merseburger, 1885), by Hermann Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le forme elementari della composizione dei vegetali; o, L'origine della specie; (Filogenesi delle Nicotianae, delle Primulaceae e delle Violae) . (Stabilimento Tip. Rinascimento, 1920), by Giuseppe Emilio Anastasia (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'hygiène du violon, de l'alto, et du violoncelle : conseils pratiques sur l'acquisition, l'acquisition, l'entretien, le réglage, et la conservation des instruments à archet. (C. Delagrave, 1910), by Lucien Greilsamer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Observations on the genera Viola, Utricularia and Gratiola : a reprint from the Annals of the Lyceum of New York (1824-1826), to which are appended photographs of the hitherto unpublished plates of the author, destined to illustrate these works. (Indiana University Press, 1824), by John Eatton Le Conte, Viola Brainerd Baird, Julius A. Nieuwland, and Indiana University. Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalog of rare old violins, violas and violoncellos; also bows of rare makes. (Faithorn, 1917), by Lyon & Healy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der lautenspiegel; beihefte zur monatsschrift: "Die Laute," (J. Zwissler, 1918), by Richard Möller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Catalog of rare old violins, violas and violoncellos; also bows of rare makes. (Faithorn, 1917), by Lyon & Healy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rare violins, violas, violoncellos of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, of the Wurlitzer collection. (The Rudolph Wurlitzer company, 1931), by Rudolph Wurlitzer Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Viola alta oder Altgeige (Verlag von Carl Merseburger, 1885), by Hermann Ritter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Genetical and cytological investigations on Viola tricolor L. and V. arvensis Murr (Berlingska boktr., 1926), by Jens Christian Clausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• New method for the viola, to which is added twenty-five studies. (O. Ditson, 1875), by Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annotated course of study for viola : emphasizing chamber music and orchestral repertoire as a media (University of Illnois School of Music, 1974), by Guillermo Perich and University of Illinois. School of music (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Spivakovsky way of bowing for violinists and violists. (Volkwein Bros., 1949), by Gaylord Yost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Otto Langey's new and revised edition of celebrated tutors : Viola. (C. Fischer, 1910), by Otto Langey (page images at HathiTrust)
• New method for the viola, to which is added twenty-five studies. (O. Ditson, 1875), by Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni (page images at HathiTrust)

• Orchesterstudien aus seinen Bühnenwerken : Viola (Fürstner Musikverlag ;, 1987), by Richard Strauss and August Gentz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Orchestral studies from symphonic works for viola. (International Music Co., 1910), by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Steiner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Otto Langey's new and revised edition of celebrated tutors : Viola. (C. Fischer, 1910), by Otto Langey (page images at HathiTrust)
• New method for the viola, to which is added twenty-five studies. (O. Ditson, 1875), by Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quarantadue studii per violino trascritti per viola (G. Ricordi, 1922), by Rodolphe Kreutzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Violin and viola calisthenics : class exercises without the actual production of sound (Belwin, 1951), by Bernard Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Orazione funebre dell'avvocato Emmanuele Viola in occasione dei solenni funerali celebrati nella chiesa di S. Antonino addi 2 marzo 1865 (F. Lao, 1865), by Filippo Evola (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeare's Viola : a Shakespearean story of a winsome twin (The Roycroft Shops, 1929), by George William Gerwig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (second revised edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1907), by F. A. Steinhausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Physiologie der Bogenführung auf den Streich-Instrumenten (fourth edition, in German; Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, 1920), by F. A. Steinhausen, ed. by Arnold Schering (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The M. Steinert collection of keyed and stringed instruments. With various treatises on the history of these instruments, the method of playing them, and their influence on musical art. (C.F. Tretbar, 1893), by Morris Steinert (page images at HathiTrust)
• La chélonomie, ou, Le parfait luthier. (A. Lossfelt, 1885), by Sébastien-André Sibire, L Pratis, and Nicolas Lupot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les instruments à archet : les feseurs, les joueurs d'instrument, leur histoire dur le continent européen, suivi d'un Catalogue général de la musique de chambre (Impr. de J. Claye, 1876), by Antoine Vidal (page images at HathiTrust)
• La lutherie artistique; monographie raisonnée des instruments à archet, suivie de considérations nouvelles sur la construction des caisses harmoniques (Impr. de A. Quantin, 1885), by Léon Mordret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taxe der Streich-Instrumente; Anleitung zur Einschätzung von Geigen, Violen, Violoncelli, Kontrabässen usw. nach Herkunft und Wert. (C. Merseburger, 1907), by Albert Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La lutherie artistique; monographie raisonnée des instruments à archet, suivie de considérations nouvelles sur la construction des caisses harmoniques (Impr. de A. Quantin, 1885), by Léon Mordret (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taxe der Streich-Instrumente : Anleitung zur Einschätzung der Geigen, Violen, Violoncelli, Kontrabässe usw. nach Herkunft und Wert (C. Merseburger, 1922), by Albert Fuchs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manuel du luthier, contenant: 1. la construction intérieure et extérieure des instrumens à archet tels que violons, alto basses et contre-basses; 2. la construction de la guitare; 5. [!] la confection de l'archet (Roret, 1834), by J. C. Maugin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau manuel complet du luthier, contenant la construction intérieure et extérieure des instruments à archet, tels que le violon, l'alto, la basse et la contrebasse, ainsi que celle de la guitare : et traitant de la confection de l'archet : de la fabrication des cordes harmoniques employées par le luthier, et de la fabrication des diverses cordes, dites à boyaux, employées dans l'industrie (Librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1869), by J. C. Maugin and W. Maigne (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the mechanical theory of the vibrations of bowed strings and of musical instruments of the violin family, with experimental verification of the results (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 1918), by C. V. Raman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Old, rare violins, violas, cellos, and basses; collection 1903-1904. (New York, 1903), by Carl Fischer Music (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three masters : the stringed instrument collection in the Library of Congress (The Library of Congress, 1983), by Rembert Herbert and Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

• A treatise on the structure and preservation of the violin and all other bow-instruments; together with an account of the most celebrated makers, and of the genuine characteristics of their instruments (R. Cocks & Co. [etc.], 1860), by Jacob August Otto and John Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italʹi︠a︡nskie smychkovye instrumenty : kharakteristika instrumentov : znamenitykh Italʹianskikh masterov ikh uchenikov i posli︠e︡dovateleĭ (Tipografii︠a︡ Gubernskago Pravlenii︠a︡, 1886), by D. Zelensʹkyĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on the structure and preservation of the violin and all other bow-instruments; together with an account of the most celebrated makers ... (R. Cocks and Co., 1848), by Jacob August Otto and John Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den Bau der Bogen-instrumente und über die Arbeiter der vorzüglichsten Instrumentenmacher. Zur Belehrung für Musiker. Nebst Andeutungen zur Erhaltung der Violine in gutem Zustande. (H. Haacke, 1886), by Jacob Augustus Otto (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les instruments à archet à l'Exposition universelle de 1867. (Imprimerie Jouaust, 1867), by J. Gallay (page images at HathiTrust)

• The M. Steinert collection of keyed and stringed instruments. With various treatises on the history of these instruments, the method of playing them, and their influence on musical art. (C.F. Tretbar, 1893), by Morris Steinert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Violinspiels (M. Hesse, 1923), by Andreas Moser and Hans Joachim Moser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the violoncello, the viol da gamba, their precursors and collateral instruments : with biographies of all the most eminent players of every country (AMS Press, 1976), by Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the violoncello, the via di gamba, their precursors and collateral instruments, with biographies of all the most eminent players of every country. (W. Reeves, 1915), by Edmund S. J. van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of the musical bow; a chapter in the developmental history of stringed instruments of music. Primitive types. (Clarendon, 1899), by Henry Balfour (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the violoncello, the viol da gamba, their precursors and collateral instruments : with biographies of all the most eminent players of every country (W. Reeves, 1915), by Edmund Sebastian Joseph van der Straeten (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Three masters : the stringed instrument collection in the Library of Congress (The Library of Congress, 1983), by Rembert Herbert and Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

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