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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 101 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ALTO (Ital. for " high ")

alto] Ital. See also:
alto] Ital. viola Ger. Bratsche VIOLA [Fr. viole
viola Ger. Bratsche VIOLA [Fr. viole , the See also:

TENOR (through Fr. and It. from Lat. tenor, holding on, course, sense of a law, tone)

tenor member of the See also:

VIOLIN

violin See also:

FAMILY

family . The construction of the See also:

VIOLA [Fr. viole, Ger. Bratsche, Ital. viola, alto]

viola is the same, but on a larger See also:

scale, as that of the violin (q.v.) . The See also:

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument is pitched a perfect fifth below the violin .

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