Andrew,
Please do not ignore the principal chorus, consisting of principal voices
at 8 foot, 4, foot, 2,foot, and mixture. They are a flue chorus (pipes
lacking vibrating reeds). The reed chorus works to augment the principal
chorus. The term foundation stops can be applied equally to principals.
They have also been called diapason stops.Vox humana and cromorne are, as
you note, not chorus voices, but we organists think of them as solo voices.
And any organ worth its salt will have a flute chorus or two.
Ken Fowler
M. Mus. in church music, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1958.
Served on several organ benches over a 47 year stint as a church organist.
Now retired.
At 11:38 AM 3/1/2006 -0500, you wrote:
On Mar 1, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Fisher, Allen wrote:
I've not heard chorus used in a context other than in the context of
singers.
In organ terminology, the reed stops are divided into "chorus reeds" (the
loud ones, such as trumpet or bombarde) and "semichorus reeds" (the
funky-sounding ones such as vox humana and cromorne). I don't know for
certain, but I don't think these terms have anything to do with the idea
of accompanying a chorus, but are rather an analogy to the sound of a full
choir versus a semichorus. Certainly many stops of both types are not
suited to accompanying singing.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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