Intro
Preface
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
Part I Establishment of the Vox Humana Stop in Pipe Organ Building: Some Historical Observations
1 In Search of an Appropriate Name: Consolidation of the Vox Humana Designation
1.1 The Emergence of the Vox Humana in European Organ Building
1.2 A Variety of Names: From a Bear's Roar to the Human Voice
1.2.1 Cases of Literal Translation of "Vox Humana"
1.2.2 Semantically Linked Names
1.2.3 Fanciful Designations
1.3 Discrepancy in Verbal Naming and Sound Perception

2 From the Fiffaro to the Voce Umana: Beating Stops in the Italian and Sicilian Organ Building Tradition
2.1 Establishment of the Fiffaro and the First Attempts in Italian Organs
2.2 The Fiffaro in the Bergamo Area Organ Building Tradition: Cases of Antegnati Craftsmanship
2.2.1 Notes on the Fiffaro in the Contracts with Graziadio Antegnati
2.2.2 Organ Building Contracts with Costanzo Antegnati
2.2.3 Organ Building Contracts with Giovanni Francesco Antegnati
2.3 Some Aspects of the Sicilian Organ Building Tradition
3 The Vox Humana in Lithuanian Baroque Pipe Organs

3.1 The Development of an Individual Baroque Organ Building School in Lithuania
3.2 In Search of Reed Stops in Lithuanian Baroque Organs
3.3 Testimony About the Vox Humana in Archival Records
3.4 Extant Vox Humana Examples in Lithuanian Organs
3.4.1 Franciscan Church in Kretinga, End of the Seventeenth Century/c. 1680, Unknown Master
3.4.2 Budslau Basilica, 1781/83, Nicolaus Jantzon
3.4.3 Tytuvėnai Church, 1789, Attributed to Nicolaus Jantzon
3.4.4 Kurtuvėnai Church, 1791-1793, Mateusz Raczkowski
3.4.5 Vilnius Church of the Holy Spirit, 1775-1776, Adam Gottlob Casparini

Part II From Italy to Lithuania: The Casparini Dynasty and the Consolidation of Lithuanian Baroque Organ Building
4 Over Two Centuries of Caspari(ni) Activity: From North to South
4.1 The Casparini Dynasty
4.2 Eugenio Casparini: "Tedesco(I) Italiano(I)"
4.3 Following Eugenio: Later Generations
4.3.1 Adam Horatio Casparini
4.3.2 Georg Sigismund Caspari
4.3.3 Adam Gottlob Casparini
5 Following the Activity of Lithuanian Late-Baroque Organ Builders
5.1 Settling in Vilnius and Working in the Area

5.2 A Duo of Vilnius Organ Masters: Joachim Friedrich Scheel and Ludwik Jozef Klimowicz
5.3 The Founder of the Vilnius School: Gerhardt Arendt Zelle and His Milieu
5.4 Nicolaus Jantzon's Oeuvre and the Flourishing of the Vilnius School
Part III Creating the Vox Humana's Variety of Sounds
6 Characteristics of the Vox Humana's Resonator Construction
6.1 On the Configuration of the Vox Humana Pipes in Written Sources
6.2 The Typology of the Vox Humana Resonators
6.3 The Vox Humana Pipes of Cylindrical-Conic Construction
6.4 The Vox Humana Pipes of Double-Conic Construction