The viola is the middle voice of the string family. It is slightly larger than a violin and has a lower and deeper sound than a violin. Since the 18th century it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

John Cage would be pleased: If you listen very carefully, you may hear a world record shatter. In sealed bidding expected to end this week, auctioneers Sotheby's and Ingles & Hayday have been taking ...

The viola is an often undervalued instrument, yet it carries the weight of uniting an orchestra’s entire string section. With its deep, melodic sounds, it pulls together the overarching melody the ...

The viola is a beautiful and versatile instrument that adds a rich tone to an orchestra or string ensemble. If you are a beginner who is eager to explore a new world of music or an experienced violist ...

It’s late autumn — viola time. The viola should perhaps be the instrument of summer. Its tone suggests sumptuous ripeness from the top of its range to bottom. But falling between the violin’s soaring ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For ABC Classic Presenter Ed Le Brocq, the viola has a diamond-like quality and a stunningly ...

The iconography of Orpheus often shows him drawing a bow across the strings of a bulky fiddle, which he balances on his shoulder. What Apollo is supposed to have given to Orpheus was a lyre, which he ...

A musical note unheard for more than 300 years will resonate again this weekend, the true voice of the seven-string viola da gamba, copied by generations of instrument makers unwittingly using the ...

Update Wednesday, June 25, 2014: A representative from Sotheby's tells NPR that the instrument did not sell "at this time." Wednesday, Sotheby's auction house plans to announce the sale of a rare ...

Between Tuesday, May 21, and Monday, May 27, 2019, a viola inscribed with the initials “IA” made its way from a quaint 1880s carriage house in Little Rock’s Quapaw Quarter to the hands of Japan’s ...

If you caught any of the charming, underrated series Da Vinci’s Demons on Starz—or, I guess, if you are familiar with a more realistic historical accounting—you’ll know that Leonardo Da Vinci designed ...