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gambist

(ˈɡæmbɪst)
n
(Classical Music) a person who plays the viola da gamba
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gambist

a performer on the viola da gamba.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.gambist - a musician who performs upon the viola da gamba
instrumentalist, musician, player - someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
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George Mason University Libraries has acquired and digitized the only extant holograph score by Dutch-born cellist, gambist, and composer Johan Arnold Dahmen (1766-1812).
Notes for Notes
The players are dressed in Oriental costumes that would have been outrageous to Rembrandt's contemporaries; a viola da gambist wears a colorful turban and bright tunic; a young harpist stares at the viewer as if annoyed by an intruder.
The real thing
Starting at Berkeley '98, in the canary-yellow First Congregational Church, the masterful viola da gambist Jordi Savall--with the raven-haired soprano Montserrat Figueras and a band of Spanish players from Hesperion XX (Savall's group) and La Capella Reial de Catalunya--performed a program of Catalan music drawn from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries.
Early Music's Charmed Circle
More experimental again is the rendition of Mudarra's Claros y frescos rios in which the chordal vihuela accompaniment is transferred to the gambist. Fifteenth-century pictures of vihuela de arco players clearly suggest something along these lines, but I have never come across the practice in a recording of this music before.
Amando e Desiando: Spanish and Italian Music from the 16th Century
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