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How is voilé played?
Shape the locally marked tone or gesture toward a veiled quality using means appropriate to the instrument and surrounding notation. That may involve resonance, attack, spectral balance, vocal colour or, where explicitly indicated, a physical covering or mute. The word alone does not require lower dynamics, breathiness, nasal tone, dark register, distance, sul ponticello, extra bow pressure or any single technique. Maintain the requested character for the marked span and let a contrary timbre instruction or clear contextual change cancel it.
How does voilé sound?
Veiled, covered, muted, or less clear tone; not necessarily a physical mute.
In context
Specialist music dictionaries define voilé as veiled, subdued, husky, damped or muffled and apply it to voices, instruments and, in a specific historical sense, covered drums. French lexical evidence likewise uses son voilé and voix au timbre voilé. These uses support a perceived covered quality but not a universal mute or execution method. No candidate abbreviation met the three-source direct-expansion rule, so voilé is written in full.
Equivalent terms
- IT velato
- DE verschleiert
- DE gedämpft
- EN veiled