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Example sentences for: viola

How can you use “viola” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

That when he was playing with La Monte Young, John Cale was given LSD, pot, and opium to help him "sustain a note on his viola for two hours at a stretch"?
The viola tends to be plaintively melancholic, or else to squawk, ugly-duckling style, like a bassoon or an English horn.
At his Philharmonic appearance during his most recent visit, he performed a viola concerto by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke, who not only wrote the piece for him but was kind enough to derive a theme cabalistically from the letters in Bashmet's name.
Also performed at the festival, for example, were his works for "hyperinstruments," electronic versions of a cello, viola, and violin, which he invented himself.
It feels like an ancient epic, with the viola as Gilgamesh, wandering the earth.