the difference between cello and viola music is that cello sounds lower then viola
Typically a string quartet is two violins, one viola, one cello.
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The cello.
The viola is both larger than the violin and smaller than the cello.
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The 'cello is larger than the viola, which is larger than the violin.
The bass has the lowest pitch of these instruments, followed by the 'cello and then the viola.
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violin, viola cello, bass
no The cello can, however, achieve many notes in the viola range. The viola can only go down so far in pitch on the lowest open string.
A cello can play in the range of a violin (much of it), if that's what you mean, but a violin's highest note is much higher than a cello's highest note.