Viola pomposa Viola pomposa The viola pomposa (also known as the violino pomposo) is a five-stringed instrument developed around 1725. There are no exact dimensions applicable to all instruments used under this name, although in general the pomposa is slightly wider than a standard viola (hence the Italian adjective "pomposa"). It uses four viola strings, tuned conventionally (C-G-D-A), with the addition of a high E string (usually a violin string), giving it a greater range than the orchestral viola; the trade-off comes in a sound which is slightly more resonant than a violin. The viola pomposa is played on the arm and
String Quartet No. 6 (Babbitt) one instrument at a time, are used to mark off composite pitch aggregates . The work is based on an all-partition array which is (with a few swapped partitions) the M5 transform of the one used in "The Joy of More Sextets" (1986), for violin and piano . String Quartet No. 6 (Babbitt) String Quartet No. 6 is the last of six chamber-music works in the string quartet medium by the American composer Milton Babbitt. Babbitt’s expansive and lyrical Sixth Quartet was written in 1993. It is in two sections, in each of which the work's underlying six-part all-partition array