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vox humana

[voks hyoo-mey-nuh, -mah-, -man-uh]

noun

  1. a pipe-organ stop designed to produce tones resembling those of the human voice.



vox humana

/ hjuːˈmɑːnə /

noun

  1. a reed stop on an organ supposedly imitative of the human voice

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Word History and Origins

Origin of vox humana1

First recorded in 1720–30, vox humana is from Latin vōx humāna “human voice”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vox humana1

C18: from Latin: human voice
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Example Sentences

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Among the hundreds of stops that organists use to imitate different instruments, there is one labeled vox humana or “human voice.”

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There is a vox humana stop out in whatever organ plays it, magnetic to the human passions that memory and imagination keep.

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We went through the same process again, only I kept my foot on the vox humana pedal until I had crammed it 'way into fortissimo.

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But she pulled out every stop of the feminine organ, the clarion, the stopped diapason, flute, bird-stop, vox humana, and, lastly, the tremolo stop.

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And the windows—the sunlight filtering in through that one on the left was like the organ when the vox humana pedal is on—all shimmering.

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