Viva fui in silvis sum dura occisa securi dum vixi tacui mortua dulce canois inscribed on the fingerboard of a 16th-century viola da gamba made by Kaspar Tieffenbrucker. It translates, I was alive in the woods; I was cut down by the cruel axe. While I lived I was silent; In death I sweetly sing.
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- Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony