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Suboctuple :: Suboctave (a.) Alt. of Suboctupl.

Ninth :: Ninth (n.) An interval containing an octave and a second.

Diatonic :: Diatonic (a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first..

Loco :: Loco (adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.

Octave :: Octave (n.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines..

Violone :: Violone (n.) The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass..

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

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

Ophicleide :: Ophicleide (n.) A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas..

Eleventh :: Eleventh (a.) Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.

Archilute :: Archilute (n.) A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison..

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

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

Fourteenth :: Fourteenth (n.) The octave of the seventh.

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

Harmonics :: Harmonics (n.) Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones..

Thirteenth :: Thirteenth (n.) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.

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

Sonnet :: Sonnet (n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule..

Tenth :: Tenth (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third..

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