Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Pièces de viole were collections of suites for bass viol and usually continuo written by several French Baroque composers most notably Marin Marais whose five Livres form a core of the viol repertoire. Early pièces did not include continuo parts; examples of these may be found in the oeuvres of Sieur de Sainte-Colombe and Nicolas Hotman.