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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Contrafagetto :: Contrafagetto (n.) The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon..

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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