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Vox humana pipes. The vox humana (Latin for "human voice"; also "voz humana" in Spanish and Portuguese, "voix humaine" in French and "voce umana" in Italian, although "voce umana" is also a term for a celeste stop, q.v.) is a short-resonator reed stop on the pipe organ, so named because of its supposed resemblance to the human voice. [1]
A soft organ flue stop tuned slightly flat. Vox Humana (Latin) Voix Humaine (French) Voz Humana (Spanish) Voz Humane (Spanish) Reed: Fractional-length Regal supposedly intended to imitate the human voice (hence the name). Waldflöte (German) Wald Flute (German/English)
Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ console. This is a list of stops (tone selections) ... Vox Humana 16 15" Left stage from Vox Humana, Swell-Choir Pedal Pedal left 20
An organ stop is a component of a pipe organ that admits pressurized air (known as wind) to a set of organ pipes. Its name comes from the fact that stops can be used selectively by the organist; each can be "on" (admitting the passage of air to certain pipes), or "off" ( stopping the passage of air to certain pipes).
It is full of theatrical codes harking back to the Dadaists' Vox Humana experiments after World War I, Alphonse de Lamartine's "La Voix humaine", part of his larger work Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the effect of the creation of the Vox Humana ("voix humaine"), an organ stop of the Regal Class by Church organ masters (late 16th ...
Vox humana (Latin, 'human voice') is a reed stop on the pipe organ. Vox humana may also refer to: 1974 cantata by Allan Pettersson; Vox Humana (Alfred Wolfsohn album), 1956; Vox Humana (Daniel Amos album), 1984; Vox Humana (Kenny Loggins album), 1985 "Vox Humana" (song) Vox Humana (political party), in Sweden
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The organ has 124 stops, which sound from 6,718 pipes arranged on 26 wind chests. ... Vox humana: 8′ Tremolo Vox humana: IV Schwellwerk C–f 3. Quintatön: 16′