Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See voix céleste.
Wiktionary
- n. music an organ stop giving a gentle tremolo effect; the voix céleste
GNU Webster's 1913
- (Music) An organ stop of delicate stringlike quality, having for each finger key a pair of pipes, of which one is tuned slightly sharp to give a wavy effect to their joint tone.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an organ stop producing a gentle tremolo effect
Etymologies
- From Latin vox ("voice") + angelica ("angelic") (Wiktionary)
- New Latin vōx angelica : Latin vōx, voice + Late Latin angelica, feminine of angelicus, angelic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Organ Stops
A list of pipe- and pedal-organ stops. These have variously and perhaps at times capriciously been named and labelled by organ builders in Latin, English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, a...
diapason, double open diapason, sub-bourdon, double dulciana, bourdon, contra gamba, pyramidon, open diapason, stopped diapason, dulcis, dulciana, viol-di-gamba and 244 more...
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