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Octave :: Octave (n.) A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe..

Eighth :: Eighth (n.) The interval of an octave.

Octave :: Octave (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself.

Overblow :: Overblow (v. i.) To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing..

Polychord :: Polychord (n.) An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument..

Triad :: Triad (n.) The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave..

Octave :: Octave (a.) Consisting of eight; eight.

Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone..

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.

Principal :: Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason..

Equisonance :: Equisonance (n.) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

Twelfth :: Twelfth (n.) An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

Utas :: Utas (n.) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael..

Violoncello :: Violoncello (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin..

Semidiapason :: Semidiapason (n.) An imperfect octave.

Eleventh :: Eleventh (n.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenienc

Univocal :: Univocal (a.) Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2..

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

Plagal :: Plagal (a.) Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave..

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