octave in English

noun
1
a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other.
These ratios produce the eight notes of an octave in the musical scale corresponding to the white keys on a piano.
2
a poem or stanza of eight lines; an octet.
The second quatrain of Smith's sonnet alludes to Petrarch's octave .
3
the eighth day after a church festival, inclusive of the day of the festival.
On the watery desert from Pentecost to Christmas, they stay on the Isle of Ailbe from Christmas through the octave of Epiphany.
4
the last of eight standard parrying positions.

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1. Of or relating to the octave commencing on the G lying an octave above the treble clef n in Altissimo in the octave commencing

2. Octave spectra acousto-optic tuneable filter

3. These notes are an octave apart.

4. Octave Mandolins and Citterns The octave mandolin is a tear-drop shaped instrument strung with four courses of steel strings, usually tuned GDAE or similar, one octave below mandolin pitch

5. Her voice went down an octave.

6. Using whatever scale is appropriate for your level (one-octave, two-octave, or three-octave), play your scale using one of the Bowing techniques described above, for example: martelé or legato

7. Can you span an octave on the piano?

8. (Water splashes) And pitched it down another octave.

9. Ottovina, octave, eight: translation was something like love.

10. The interval and the consonance of an octave.

11. A robin's song spans less than an octave.

12. He's singing an octave lower than the rest of us.

13. The B flat lies an octave below the bass clarinet.

14. 23 The B flat lies an octave below the bass clarinet.

15. Rather, the carrier frequency swoops up or down about an octave.

16. The most usual form is canon at the unison, or octave.

17. The octave combinations are practically confined, in the small orchestra, to

18. The bass may however, always be doubled at the octave below if desired.

19. \(\bullet\) The perfect fifth and the perfect octave are considered perfect Consonances

20. "Resting" intervals are the fifth and octave, with thirds and sixths considered dissonances.

21. What's more, Bill had a voice that was nearly an octave higher than Ben's.

22. To form an octave is to double a frequency or to halve it.

23. The bassoons are at their most powerful in their bottom octave or so.

24. I just heard this fabulous laugh, like a whole octave, top to bottom.

25. Twelve-tone equal temperament divides the octave into 12 semitones of 100 Cents each

26. The child's hands are too small to stretch to an octave on the piano.

27. Carmine Bonanno is an electrical engineer and audio pioneer who founded Octave-Plateau Electronics, Inc

28. Depending on whom you ask, Irish Bouzoukis can also be called Octave Mandolins or Citterns

29. (Water splashes at lower octave) And then they removed a lot of the high frequencies.

30. An alphorn has five octaves – the higher the octave, the more powerful the tone issued.

31. If a vibrating string is lightly touched at its midpoint , its pitch goes up an octave.

32. Balani is a 2 1/2 octave balafon (or Balaphon) with small calabash resonators form Guinea

33. The “Chiming” effect came from the extra strings, tuned an octave higher than normal guitar strings

34. In Altissimo: [adverb (or adjective)] in the octave beginning with the third G above middle C.

35. Cello definition is - the bass member of the violin family tuned an octave below the viola.

36. Here are the notes from middle C up to the C an octave higher, in Crotchets.

37. Arpeggios can be started at one octave and should eventually be practiced up to two octaves

38. All models of the Taurus use a 24db/octave resonant low pass filter with key tracking.

39. The scale length is now generally a little shorter than Greek Bouzoukis, and the distinction between Bouzouki and Octave Mandola (also known in America as Octave Mandolin) has become blurred, as the neck length is the only difference

40. Antiphonic: In ancient Greek music , of or pertaining to the interval of an octave: opposed to * paraphonic.

41. The violins may be doubled at the higher octave by a flute or two with very good effect.

42. The Irish Bagpipes play more than two complete chromatic octaves while the Scottish Bagpipes play only one octave

43. By the time the star is sighted, octave passages have taken over and the excitement reaches fever pitch.

44. The chromatic scale is. made of the 12 black and white keys within an octave on the piano.

45. More brilliance still would be given to the tune if the trumpets doubled the trombone at the octave above.

46. 17 The flute adds brightness to oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn when it doubles them at the octave.

47. B. pertussis was discovered in 1906 by Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou, who also developed the first serology and vaccine.

48. Mandolins, Bouzoukis, octave mandolas, citterns, tenor mandolas and all other types in the mandolin family plus accessories, books and music

49. Mandolins, bouzoukis, octave mandolas, Citterns, tenor mandolas and all other types in the mandolin family plus accessories, books and music

50. Bassoons come in two sizes: the bassoon, and the double bassoon or contrabassoon, which sounds an octave lower than the bassoon