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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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.

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

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..

Tridiapason :: Tridiapason (n.) A triple octave, or twenty-second..

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

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

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

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

Authentic :: Authentic (n.) Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic..

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

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

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

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