vox humana
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of vox humana
First recorded in 1720–30, vox humana is from Latin vōx humāna “human voice”
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.”
From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2016
The exhibition comes to us with the vox humana stop full out.
From Time Magazine Archive
By pulling and pushing little buttons, modern organists can produce tremulous vox humana, whooshing swell-effects, can make their gigantic instruments do everything but prance up & down the aisles.
From Time Magazine Archive
I dragged it out plaintively, with a vox humana tremolo on the coaxing little refrain.
From The Prairie Wife by Dunn, Harvey
Or was it some monster shut up behind that carved brass frame, behind those great silver columns—some despairing monster begging, screaming for freedom! it was the vox humana!
From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Dodge, Mary Mapes
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