Viol vs Baryton - What's the difference?
viol | baryton |
A viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments
To play the viol.
* (Sir Walter Scott)
* (Thomas Hardy)
(music) A string instrument related to the viol, employed in European music prior to the 1800s
As nouns the difference between viol and baryton
is that viol is a viola da gamba, a family of musical instruments that preceded the violin and viola and similar string instruments while baryton is a string instrument related to the viol, employed in European music prior to the 1800s.As a verb viol
is to play the viol.viol
English
(wikipedia viol)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing , and tabouring, and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.
- Through snowy woods and shady / We went to play a tune / To the lonely manor-lady / By the light of the Christmas moon. / We violed till, upward glancing / To where a mirror leaned, / It showed her airily dancing
baryton
English
Noun
(en noun)- Haydn composed scores of pieces for the baryton .