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

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

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.

Disdiapason :: Disdiapason (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc..

Diapason :: Diapason (n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony..

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..

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..

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

Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones..

Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..

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

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

Tone :: Tone (n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones..

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

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..

Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.

Nineteenth :: Nineteenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a fifth.

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third..

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