Word Finder - octave

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An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.

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The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave.

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The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.

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The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.

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A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)

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A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.

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The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.

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The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.

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An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.

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An octonion.

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Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.

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The subjective vibration of a planet.

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Consisting of eight; eight in number.

We can see, too, at once how the octave is such a smooth consonance.

Then she clarified, an octave higher.

The translators handled the octave stanza.

The double bassoon, or contrabassoon, sounds one octave lower.

If one is the octave of the other a figure of 8 may be described, and so on.

In a true-harmonic bell, with the main partials in octaves, the pitch is about an octave below the nominal.

She froze with fear and his voice raised an octave.

At bar 67 Clementi uses the octave quavers, derived from the first subject, but in two-part counterpoint, often in contrary motion.

A wealth of octave and sub-octave couplers have been provided.

All octave couplers to play through the 10 unison couplers.

The fretting of the instrument is basically diatonic, but it is not the same in each octave.

I have not got the sound of that discord that should have been an octave, out of my ears yet.

For Downside a complete positive was provided from the great by octave duplication.

The octave nominals are a little flatter than in modern bells.

Choir organ effects, too, are possible by playing an octave higher in combination with the 8ft. flute.

Four Hand Reel are Julian Gurr (mandolin, octave mandolin) and Andy Stone (guitar, vocals ).

Its octave nominal is however an almost perfect octave, something which modern founders do not usually achieve.

For how can one locate the double octave in such a list?

Note the provision of an extra octave of treble pipes to most of the organ, for use with the octave of treble pipes to most of the organ, for use with the octave couplers.

Thomas sent Beethoven a gift of a 6 octave grand pianoforte made from Spanish mahogany.

The octave quint which stands on the former harmonic flute slide is the old fifteenth, with five extra pipes at the bottom.

Being a physicist, my first thought was merely to tabulate the required frequencies of the twelve semitones of the octave.

Yet, so insensible is Schatz to the euphony of his own work, that he proposes, as an alternative for the first and second trombones, two violins an octave higher, the other parts remaining unaltered!

By reducing the tension to one quarter of its previous amount, the number of ventral segments will be seen to be increased to two, indicating that the first harmonic of the thread is now in unison with the solid, and consequently that its fundamental is an octave lower than it was with the former tension; thus confirming the law that n varies as S IT.

The best work of the Belgian romanticists is in the rich and picturesque prose of the 16th century romance of Charles de Coster (see DE Coster), and in the melancholy and semi-philosophical writings of the moralist Octave Pirmez.

This nervous excitability was inherited, though' not to the same excess, by Octave, whose mother died in his infancy and left him to the care of the hypersensitive invalid.

In ' Awaiting Execution ' the atmosphere is set with a morbid semiquaver figure set an octave below.

Contains 7 technical vocal exercises played on piano and each having a one octave range in semitone intervals.

His swell mixtures often had a tierce rank in the tenor octave but this was a hangover of the 18th Century English organ.

There is also a Key Transpose function which lets you change the pitch up or down in a range of one octave.

Since tritone chords are generally avoided in vocal music, the second chord of khulo is an octave.

Octave Systems Incorporated offers CD and DVD duplicators of different sizes, so it should not be difficult to find one that suits your needs.

The low string is an E, and the high string is an E, too, just an E in a higher octave.

For each string, these notes in an octave are as follows (starting with the first fret and ending with the 12th fret).

The number symbol makes a note sharp and the actual number denotes the octave.

Neptune is the planet of dreams, romance and spirituality, and it is considered the higher octave of Venus.

Her nights were spent in writing, which seemed in her case a relaxation from the real business of the day, playing with her grandchildren, gardening, conversing with her visitors - it might be Balzac or Dumas, or Octave Feuillet or Matthew Arnold - or writing long letters to Sainte-Beuve and Flaubert.

But Zarlino uncompromisingly declared that the syntonous or intense diatonic scale was the only form that could reasonably be sung; and in proof of its perfection he exhibited the exact arrangement of its various diatonic intervals, to the fifth inclusive, in every part of the diapason or octave.

This story is much amplified in the account given by St John of Damascus in the homilies In dormitionem Mariae, which are still read in the Roman Church as the lesson during the octave of the feast.

In some cases of echo, when the original sound is a compound musical note, the octave of the fundamental tone is reflected much more strongly than that tone itself.

Hence the octave, though comparatively feeble in the incident train, may predominate in the scattered reflection constituting the echo.

Thus, if the one note be an octave higher than the other, it will give double the number of waves in the same distance.

Thus the second A = 2 X 2 X 2, and we may regard it as an ascent through two fifths in succession and then a descent through an octave.

The next higher octave has the suffix 2, the next higher the suffix 3, and so on.

His festival is observed on that anniversary by the entire Roman Catholic Church as a semi-duplex, and by the Spanish Catholics as a duplex of the first class with an octave.

The group reformed in 1978 and recorded the album Octave.

Robinson, K. & PATTERSON, R.D. APU 3314 The stimulus duration required to identify vowels, their octave, and their pitch chroma.

Hold B to drop the sounds an octave, or hold X to raise them.

A festival called the Rushbearing takes place on the Saturday within the octave of St Oswald's day (August 5th), when a holiday is observed and the church decorated with rushes, heather and flowers.

The pipes composing it were stopped at one end, so that the sound waves had to travel twice the length of the pipe, giving out a note nearly an octave lower than that produced by an open pipe of equal length.