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‖ violoncello|vaɪələnˈsɛləʊ, vaɪələnˈtʃɛləʊ; violonˈtʃello|
Also 8–9 violincello.
[It. violoncello, dim. of violone: see violon. Hence also Pg. violoncello, Sp. -celo, F. -celle.]
1. a. A large four-stringed instrument of the violin class; a bass violin. Cf. 'cello.
α1724Short Explic. For. Wds. in Mus. Bks., Violon⁓cello, is a Small Bass Violin, just half as big as a common Bass Violin, in Length, Breadth, and Thickness. 1742Fr. Barsanti (title), A Collection of Old Scots Tunes, with the Bass for Violoncello or Harpsichord. 1795Mason Ch. Mus. i. 73, I know and confess that this and the violon⁓cello are the most perfect of all stringed Instruments. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset II. xlix. 55 Of all the works of his life this playing on the violoncello had been the sweetest to him. 1881C. A. Edwards Organs 149 If the bass string of a Violoncello be vibrated, other sounds besides that proper to the string may be detected.
β1773Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 271 note, Mr. Zeidler, who plays the violincello at Covent-Garden theatre. 1797Mrs. Berkeley Poems G. M. Berkeley p. ccccxii, Dr. Berkeley was esteemed the finest gentleman-performer on the violincello in England. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. vi, Mr. Skimpole could play on the piano and the violincello.
b. A player on the violoncello. Cf. violin n. 2.
1861Geo. Eliot Let. 6 Oct. (1954) III. 456 We have our violoncello, who is full of sensibility.
2. An organ-stop having a tone similar to that of a violoncello.
1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ ix. (1878) 63 Violoncello, an 8 feet stop, resembling in construction the Violone.
3. attrib. and Comb., as violoncello bow, violoncello player, violoncello species; ‖ violoncello piccolo, a small variety of violoncello; cf. violino piccolo.
1788J. Woodforde Diary 12 Sept. (1927) III. 46 There is not perhaps a better Violencello [sic] player in the Kingdom. 1818E. Blaquiere tr. Pananti's Resid. Algiers 267 The arabebbah, of the violincello species, with one string. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 246/1 One of his best violoncello bows, which are rarities, was recently sold in Paris for {pstlg}44. 1889Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 813/1 Violoncello piccolo, a violoncello of the ordinary pitch, but of smaller size and having thinner strings. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 12 In the violoncello players who perform solos..there is very great strain. 1959Collins Mus. Encycl. 706/1 Violoncello piccolo,..a small-sized cello for which Bach wrote obbligato parts in 9 of his cantatas. 1977Gramophone Oct. 672/1 It falls short in the provision of a cello rather than Bach's own stipulation of a violoncello piccolo.
Hence violonˈcelloing ppl. a.
1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 266 One fluting brother; one fiddling ditto; a violoncelloing music-master; and a singing papa. |