How To Use Octave In A Sentence
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And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
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As the player went higher, more notes were available in each consecutive octave.
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I hissed softly, my voice a few octaves higher than it should have been.
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Notice the ways in which the problem/argument is posited in the octave and the solution/response is presented in the sestet; moreover, to further the problem/argument, Hopkins relies heavily upon cacophony in the octave but turns heavily to euphony in the sestet.
Argument in verse
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Trotter uses this music to introduce octaves, accented rhythms, a whole tone scale and a continuous cross-hand pattern.
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Suddenly his instrument shot up an octave in an astonished squeak.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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It will be observed that this hymn provided syllables only for the six tones of the _hexachord_ then recognized; when the octave scale was adopted (early in the sixteenth century) the initial letters of the last line (s and i) were combined into a syllable for the seventh tone.
Music Notation and Terminology
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The second quatrain of Smith's sonnet alludes to Petrarch's octave.
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This assumption, then, must be made, and also the following: that it is easier to discern each object of sense when in its simple form than when an ingredient in a mixture; easier, for example, to discern wine when neat than when blended, and so also honey, and [in other provinces] a colour, or to discern the nete by itself alone, than [when sounded with the hypate] in the octave; the reason being that component elements tend to efface [the distinctive characteristics of] one another.
On Sense and the Sensible
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Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast. —
Ulysses
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A standard electric bass guitar covers over three octaves.
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Its visible portion covers a range of about one octave; bolometric indications already in 1884 comprised between three and four.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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He restates the theme in octaves and floats it away over his own restatement, like a ghost score.
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Laurentii, etc. In this method of dating, which was constantly employed both in Latin and ill the vernacular, the use of the English word utas for octave should be noticed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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Only one, ‘I Love to Tell the Story,’ has the melody in octaves in the bass.
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The work artfully juxtaposes two complex, quasi-symphonic percussion instruments piano and gamelan ensemble, East and West each making fluent-sounding attempts at adopting the accent of the other, with the piano's unusual tuning giving a quirky tinge to its tones, a slight acridity to would-be octaves.
Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison
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Where the confusion seems to stem from is the fact that guitar music sounds an octave lower than concert pitch.
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One of the most difficult passages for the violin in the first movement is a melodic minor one-octave scale in fingered octaves.
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A few of the later selections present rapid octave passages and optional cadenzas that sound more difficult than they are.
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A cet égard, on distingue génériquement les voix en deux classes, sçavoir; voix aiguës ou féminines, & voix graves ou masculines, & l'on a trouvé que la différence générale des unes & des autres, étoit à-peu-près d'une octave, ce qui fait que les voix aiguës chantent réellement à l'octave des voix graves, quand elles paroissent chanter à leur unisson.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
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If the lover does in fact express his love via a sonnet, then the octave (represented here by the interrogative symbol raised to the eighth power) might encode the query: “Who do I love?” — to which the sestet (represented here by the letter U raised to the sixth power) might encode the reply: “You!”
Quick Review 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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This alone allows great nuances in color and dynamics. 32’ and 16’ ranks, reeds and octave couplers add to the foundation and expressional qualities of the organ.
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Our multicolored rainbow fits into just one octave in the middle of this broad spectrum - the octave we call light.
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The bottom octave and a half of its compass is the best part of its range for everyday use.
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Can you span an octave on the piano?
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In ‘Tea,’ a fine Italian sonnet, she finishes the octave with ‘we learn nothing of ours is ours to keep.’
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They chant in a deep harmonic, which can be heard sounding three octaves at once during stages in the ritual.
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Bees and butterflies can see ultraviolet rays, and bats and porpoises can hear sounds two octaves beyond our range.
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Her voice rose impressively through the octaves.
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The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.
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The first movement's mix of romantic yearning and arpeggiated glitter, toy fanfares and epic octaves, is unsettling.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then his true voice, midrange, musical, a wet finger making a wineglass sing, one octave lower.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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Successful performance of this work requires a moderate to advanced sense of lyrical line, fluid mastery of third octave fingerings and a working knowledge of accidentals, including double sharps (x).
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Unfortunately, my voice had risen five octaves higher than I had expected it to and this just made him laugh harder.
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I will first produce the vowel sound _oo_ and proceed with the vowel sounds to _i_; you will observe that the pitch rises an octave; that this is due to the changes in the form of the resonator is shown when I percuss the resonator in the position of the different vowel sounds.
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
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The opening takes a simple so-la-ti from the scale and distends the first note into another octave (I'm ignoring the grace note, which doesn't always appear in other statements of the theme):
The illegitimate nephew of Napoleon
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The unaided eye is sensitive to just one octave out of the vast spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that exists in the universe.
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The octave being always divided into five tones and two limmas [diatonic semitones]; by increasing the tones equally … the difference between the major and minor limma will be contracted to nothing, which … annihilates all the false consonances.
Why are minor keys in music sad?
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A bass or baritone oboe, an octave below the treble, has always been rare, though composers do occasionally write for it and the wider-bore but otherwise similar heckelphone.
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These laws are often stated thus: the ratio of the octave to the fundamental is as two is to one; that of the major third as five is to four; that of the perfect fifth as three is to two, and so on through the entire series of pitches embraced within the octave, the _ratio_ being of course the same for all octaves.
Music Notation and Terminology
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Oh, but only having twelve notes per octave is a distinct limitation: let's make it not only possible but straightforward to play microtones and true glissandi without loss of tone quality, just as the violin can.
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Octaves, large chords and arpeggios are all formations that seemingly call for large hand stretches.
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The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.
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Octave was originally written around 1992 as companion software for a textbook in chemical reactor design.
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Robert's retort is an octave higher and a glass of wine later.
October 2007
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For example, can the contrabassoon part be played up an octave?
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Tous ces diapasons différens réunis forment une étendue générale d'à-peu-près trois octaves qu'on a divisées en quatre parties, dont trois appellées haute-contre, taille & basse appartiennent aux voix masculines, & la quatrieme seulement qu'on appelle dessus est assignée aux voix aiguës, sur quoi se trouvent plusieurs remarques à faire.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
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According to the invention, an octave coupler effect is achieved by carrying out the following formula.
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It is six minutes of nonstop playing requiring rapid passage work, double-note trills in one hand and virtuoso octaves.
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Ex. 4 shows an octave of the chromatic scale beginning on C, notated in sharps ascending and flats descending.
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One of the tenor saxes also played the lead in unison with the clarinet, but an octave lower.
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Meanwhile, strong octave Bs in the bass, along with the lengthy pedals necessary to sustain them, create the tremendous resonance this passage requires.
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Petrarch, of course, writes his sonnets in two parts: an octave and a sestet — in which the first eight lines pose a problem that the remaining six lines attempt to resolve.
Quick Review 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Périque of Octave Roussel, w'at dey use call 'im Chat-oué; [2] but he git tired dat name, and now he got lil boy 'bout twenny-five year' ole, an 'dey call de ole man Catou, an' call his lil _boy_ Chat-oué.
Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana
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Smaller intervals were derived on the same principles, so that the octave could eventually be marked out into tones and semitones which might be combined to form other intervals.
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Count Octave, having quitted her husband for another, has repented of her fault and separated from her lover, but, through shamefastness, will not return to her husband.
Balzac
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The beginning octave of this sonnet fits poorly with the sestet.
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Mechanically, the piano's capacities for expressiveness increased, through more powerful and even action, damper pedals, and a full seven octaves.
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Orbison's vocal range spanned three octaves.
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Grand Choeur; the Grand Orgne and the Grand Choeur to the Pedals; and each manual has a suboctave coupler on itself.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments
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The dulcian was made in several sizes and has a range of about two and one-half octaves.
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The beginning octave of this sonnet fits poorly with the sestet.
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In the RCM parts, the verse section occupying bars 60-88 of the anthem is allocated throughout, more or less strictly in canon at the octave, to soloists singing from the medius cantoris and tenor decani part books.
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From the works of Boethius (_circa_ 400) and others, he had derived and accepted the Pythagorean division of the scale, making thirds and sixths dissonant intervals; and so his perfect chord (from which our later triad gets its name of _perfect_) was composed of a root, fifth or fourth, and octave.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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In the late '60s, Sparro had been a folky four-octave songbird with a cult following, not that any of his albums ever charted.
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Psychotic disco drums and vivacious octave bass lines introduce us to the Liars new mania.
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Once you get to the high "do" you can either go back down the scale (do ti la sol fa mi re do), or continue up into the next octave (do re mi fa sol la ti do re mi fa sol la ti do...etc) according to what the music calls for.
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This order also keeps the analogy of the symphonies, i.e. the proportion of the irascible to the rational (which is placed as hypate) making the diatessaron (or fourth), that of the irascible to the concupiscent (or nete) making the diapente (or fifth), and that of the rational to the concupiscent (as hypate to nete) making an octave or diapason.
Essays and Miscellanies
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The Sudanese music is based on the so called pentatonic scale: scale with 5 notes to the octave, like the black notes in the piano (in contrast to an heptatonic,7 notes, scale like the gypsy or Egyptian scale.
WN.com - Articles related to SOUTHERN AFRICA: Competing for Limpopo water
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In every type of musical scale, the notes progress in a series of intervals from a keynote to the octave above or below.
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Ongoing difficulties with providing professional-quality instruments, especially a five-octave marimba, played a part in the decision.
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Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast.
Ulysses
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The octave does not seem to me very clearly put, and the sestet does not emphasize in a sufficiently striking way the idea which the prose sketch conveyed to me, -- that of Keats's special privilege in early death: viz., the lovely monumentalized image he bequeathed to us of the young poet.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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But around 1450, or even before, composers and performers started to use a contratenor bassus, derived not from the discantus but from the tenor, beneath which they sang alternate 3rds and 5ths, beginning and ending with a unison or octave, and with the cadential octave preceded by a 5th; to the resulting tricinium a new kind of contratenor altus might also be added, by singing alternate 3rds and 4ths above the tenor, beginning and ending with a 5th, and with the cadential 5th preceded by a 4th see exx.3 and 4 below.
Archive 2008-02-01
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I call the octave, The Octave and the bowlback, The Bowlback.
Mandolin Cafe News
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That's the history of Oxy2, and the substance gives the vocalist the ability to arpeggiate aka Opera "figero's" up and down 6 octaves.
Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
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Note also that an octave is the difference between a harmonic and the adjacent harmonic (the frequency of one octave up is 2x the frequency of the fundamental).
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Pondering Images
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The monks' chanting is heard as a deep growling sound, which is the result of producing three octaves simultaneously (not unlike a female yak, we are led to believe).
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The majority of the tunes have a range of one octave plus an extension of a third or a fourth.
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A remarkable passage in unisons and octaves follows which leads to a fugue bristling with cross-rhythms.
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The child's hands are too small to stretch to an octave on the piano.
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It's scored for four tenors and two basses - which confines the vocal range of the work to a mere two octaves.
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He began to laugh, and then raised his voice about an octave higher to mimic my mom.
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One of the most difficult passages for the violin in the first movement is a melodic minor one-octave scale in fingered octaves.
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Orbison's vocal range spanned three octaves.
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With the Scherzo we are back to bare unisons and octaves, though now assertive, but the G with which the music starts makes the key unambiguously clear as C major.
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The Chinese scale is now, as it always has been, one of five notes to the octave, that is to say, our modern major scale with the fourth and seventh omitted.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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Boccaccio's poem, a pastoral romance in rhymed octaves, has been aptly described as a hymn to nature.
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Thus the sonnet, which had been an octave of enclosed or alternate rhymes, followed by a sestette of interlaced tercets, was now changed to a series of three quatrains with differing sets of alternate rhymes in each, at the close of which the insidious couplet succeeded in establishing itself.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia
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Those submediant switches from C major into A flat major, and to a lesser extent mediant ones e.g. the octave ascent in the famous I want To Hold Your Hand are a trademark of Lennon-McCartney songs continued with discussion of their hidden meaning in their lyrics.
Nicholas Bate
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It came with a slurring rush upward, swelling to a great heart-breaking burst of sound, and dying away in sadly cadenced woe -- then the next rush upward, octave upon octave; the bursting heart; and the infinite sorrow and misery, fainting, fading, falling, and dying slowly away.
BÂTARD
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Other standard stops are similar to those of the organ, including 16 and 4 ranks which add lower and higher octaves.
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Trotter uses this music to introduce octaves, accented rhythms, a whole tone scale and a continuous cross-hand pattern.
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The capitularies of Charlemagne speak of the octaves of Christmas, the Epiphany, and Easter.
Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave
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The band does its best when it's not being noisy with their octave guitar chord sliding and noodling.
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These rendered plainchant in unison (the boys, where available, singing an octave above the men), either as a body or antiphonally across the choir.
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The 330 residents of Botton Village community on the North York Moors, near Danby, a centre for adults with special needs, rang a 100-note peal on their set of four octave handbells.
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The baritone bassoon extended between the bassoon and the contra, and there is even a subcontra bassoon one octave lower than the contra bassoon in exceptionally rare captivity, possibly with a lamp shade.
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Just as in mediaeval times each hexachord commenced with _ut_, so now every octave of our tonal system commences with _do_.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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Spectrum, octave band and THD analyzer with signal generators: sine, two sine, multitone, white noise, pink noise, periodic white noise and periodic pink noise.
2BakSa.Net
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Monophony Strictly speaking, monophonic music is a single melodic line, without harmony or even octaves.
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Understanding that the violinist would have difficulty with the fingered octaves, he incorporated the anticipated problem into his own part.
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His voice had scaled up at least an octave and sounded almost pubescent.
DOLL'S EYES
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The flute adds brightness to oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn when it doubles them at the octave.
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He sang an octave higher than his master, to better suit his tenor.
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Not only has the poet repeatedly discovered different dramatic structures, she also discovered whole new octaves of tone.
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In another, open octaves alternate with chordal homophony.
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The piece's next movement, a canon at the octave, frames the first four movements together, but the quartet chose not to play it tonight.
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The main difficulty of the second section is the pages of interlocking octaves, chords and single notes covering the entire range of the keyboard.
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Octave de Malivert unites varieties of detestableness in a way which might be interesting if (to speak with only apparent flippancy) it were made so.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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He uses this music to introduce octaves, accented rhythms, a whole tone scale and a continuous cross-hand pattern.
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The B section is a virtual solo for secondo, with primo finishing the melodies with scale passages in octaves.
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The sophisticated, almost stentorian tone of her voice skyrockets by at least two octaves and the gamine pixie we all fell in love with is snapping my picture.
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I suspect that his voice broadens an octave whenever he sees me.
STUART: A Life Backwards
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Also, look for any octave doublings or unisons, circling or otherwise marking them between the staves.
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There was a long pause, and when it was over Mom's voice had risen up an octave or two, as though she were nervous or upset about something.
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These baby baby grands and tiny spinets produce three octaves from hammers hitting metal rods.
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No musical notes fit together better than those which are exactly one octave apart.
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One of the most difficult passages for the violin in the first movement is a melodic minor one-octave scale in fingered octaves.
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A few of the later selections present rapid octave passages and optional cadenzas that sound more difficult than they are.
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We were joined by Octave who had no hesitation in telling Andrée the number of strokes he had gone round in, the day before, at golf, then by Albertine, counting her diabolo as she walked along, like a nun telling her beads.
Within a Budding Grove
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The opening phrases of both octave and sestette are very fine; but the second quatrain and the second terzina, though with a quality of beauty, both seem somewhat to lack distinctness.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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The same hymn, in other words, is sung each day at Lauds during the season of Advent, for instance - Vox clara ecce intonat, it happens to be - and a different one - Ecce iam noctis - is sung each day, for another instance, "From the Octave of Corpus Christi until Advent.
About those Epiphanytide Office Hymns....
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Please clarify why the terms octave mandolin and mandola seem to be used interchangeably in Europe -- is this simply because they are the same size and scale length? toddmakesnoise
Mandolin Cafe News
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Redwood thought that over, and decided that his son might best begin with a very pure-sounding harmonicon of one octave, to which afterwards there could be an extension.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
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Rocky sung this quietly, and an octave lower than it was supposed to be.
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It's scored for four tenors and two basses - which confines the vocal range of the work to a mere two octaves.
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His fingers are still as flexible as ever, generating chorded solos at the octave, and singing at the same time.
A Painter meets an Actor on Great Highlife Party Stage
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The main difficulty of the second section is the pages of interlocking octaves, chords and single notes covering the entire range of the keyboard.
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The Western Electric system was thoroughly thought out, with a performance exceeding acoustic cutters by two-and-a-half octaves and almost unlimited amplification.
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Octave was originally written around 1992 as companion software for a textbook in chemical reactor design.
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In her two arias, "Come scoglio" and "Per pieta," Martinez displayed pristine high notes and an alluring lower register, while negotiating octave-wide leaps, runs, trills and more with grace.
James Conlon Celebrates 60th Birthday With Double Dose Of Mozart At Ravinia
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This huge instrument - played by a system of moveable keys pressing the strings on the fingerboard, activated by levers and pedals - in fact only sounded a mere octave lower than the cello.
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For this particular pattern there is a classical fingering pattern which is repeated over each consecutive octave.
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The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.
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The Sunday following Easter (i.e. Sunday in albis) and the octave day of Christmas (now the Circumcision) are treated very early as feast days by the liturgy.
Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave
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Sing those bars an octave lower.
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And now on this day, to wit, Wed re f day next after the octave of St. Hilary in this fame term, until which day the faid William H. had leave to imparl to the bill aforefaid, and then to anfwer, before the lord the king at the king's court come? as well the faid George by his attorney aforefaid, as the faid Will-am by T.
A collection of modern entries; or, Select pleadings in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer..
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There were ballades, chants royal, kyrielles, pantoums, rondeaux, rondels, rondeau redoubles, Sicilian octaves, roundels, sestinas, triolets, villanelles, and virelais to play with, and poets of varying merit had a go.
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Their range and tessitura increases and, with training, children are singing well over an octave in tune and in time by the end of first grade.
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His voice had changed, dropping several octaves.
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In the fourth century, when the primitive idea of the fifty days 'feast of the paschal time began to grow dim, Easter and Pentecost were given octaves.
Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave
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We have already remarked that the current medieval theory laid down for the tone system a heptatonic diatonic scale of about two octaves with the addition of b flat in the higher octave.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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A third, subordinate motif is stated in bare octaves answered by bird-like pianissimo acciaccaturas in the treble (precursors of Bartók's nature sounds, perhaps?
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You hear muted music, the lower octaves from an organ.
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These ratios produce the eight notes of an octave in the musical scale corresponding to the white keys on a piano.
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Only one, ‘I Love to Tell the Story,’ has the melody in octaves in the bass.
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Equal tempering is a system for breaking up each octave into twelve equal semi-tones.
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The child's hands are too small to stretch to an octave on the piano.
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His voice drops an octave, disappointed at this flippant question.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second privilege is in the octaves or utas; for he only with S. Stephen have their octaves among all other martyrs, like as S. Martin hath among the confessors.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4
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The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.
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Dies Irae was sung in octave alternatim by 250 people to create a beauty of enormous power.
The Awesome Beauty of Silence
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There are twelve half-tones (black and white keys on a piano), or steps, in an octave.
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The octave species is the one called Phrygian by Cleonides, with a succession of whole and half steps equivalent to the octave from D to D on the white keys of the piano.
Archive 2009-04-01
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It was about an octave higher than Jake's usual speaking voice.
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Mundy wrote The Buzzard especially at the request of Cecilia McDowall, whose initially rather spiky setting, using octaves and ninths, sets the scene for a clever contrast at the moment the bird soars, with accelerating swooping music.
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The same Mass has Dies Irae sung in octave alternation.
Never Before Heard in North America
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All of sudden he does this incredible run where he goes up two octaves and back down in quadruple time.
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The sol-fa scale consists of eight notes comprising an octave; each of the eight notes is one whole tone from the one before it, except for fa and do, which are only a half-tone higher than mi and ti respectively.
Archive 2006-07-01
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She parroted his earlier words, her voice rising by an octave.
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Shortly after the introduction of pneumatic action, an organ with an occasional octave coupler, that is a coupler which depressed a key an octave higher or lower than the one originally struck, was sometimes met with.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments
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These names have all been used denote a Bourdon pitched an octave lower, at 16' or 32'.
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He's singing an octave lower than the rest of us.
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With the Greeks the tetrachord was the unit of analysis as the octave is with us to-day, and all Greek scales are capable of division into two tetrachords, the arrangement of the intervals between the tones in each tetrachord differentiating one scale from another, but the tetrachords themselves always consisting of groups of four tones, the highest being a perfect fourth above the lowest.] [Illustration: Fig. 53.]
Music Notation and Terminology
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Dies Irae was sung in octave alternatim by 250 people to create a beauty of enormous power.
The Awesome Beauty of Silence
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The following sections deal with four issues particularly relevant to small-handed players: legato playing; fortissimo playing; playing octaves, large chords, and arpeggios; and fingering.
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These ratios produce the eight notes of an octave in the musical scale corresponding to the white keys on a piano.
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The use of octave dividers and other pitch control devices gives the quartet a surprisingly big sound at times without, one suspects, much need for conventional multi-tracking.
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Dr Laurence Hemming had to hand an Octavarium showing that in the older tradition, not only were there many minor octaves of universal observance, but there were also octaves for local Churches for their patronal feast and the dedication of the Church.
Archive 2009-04-01
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The wife of a Count Octave, having quitted her husband for another, has repented of her fault and separated from her lover, but, through shamefastness, will not return to her husband.
Balzac
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Please clarify why the terms octave mandolin and mandola seem to be used interchangeably in Europe -- is this simply because they are the same size and scale length?
Mandolin Cafe News
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The _one-lined octave_ may be described as the octave from _middle C_ to the B represented by the third line of the treble staff, and any tone within that octave is referred to as "one-lined.
Music Notation and Terminology
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Now, the diapason is the ad interium, or interval betwixt and between the extremes of an octave, according to the diatonic scale.
Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales
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V begins with the echoed reverberation of piano chords, whilst a three note ascending bassline is echoed (an octave up) by the guitar.
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The mastering of the first altissimo octave is the most difficult, and should be done before going higher.
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However, it is with regard to the modern Roman liturgy that we see a matter of probably wider liturgical interest; namely, the suppression of the ancient octave of Pentecost from the modern Roman calendar -- an octave being the extended liturgical celebration of a particular feast for a period of eight days.
Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave
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The guittern was tuned an octave above the top four courses of a bandora, so bandora players could use it directly.
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The E-flat transposition (down a major sixth) easily can be accomplished by reading the part as if written in bass clef up one octave.
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Therefore, there are 12 intervals of a half-step forming what is called an octave.
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There are other songs where I might have written the melody lower but when I tried to sing them and project with any sort of volume, it just didn't work, so I had to go up and octave and sing it in falsetto.
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The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves.
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Its musical range spans about four octaves, and the sound has some similarities to that of a Western violin.
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His scale organizes the notes into octaves, with sharps and flats in between.
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He squeezes every possible ounce of emotion out of those two octaves and the restricted range of his voice - characteristic of the man who believes in living a fulfilled life.
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The usual stored information may consist of the 'A' Weighted Leq, LN values, SPL values and perhaps 1:3 Octave Band information for tonal analysis.
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The octave combinations are practically confined, in the small orchestra, to 1.
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Although, lamentably, the Octave of Pentecost does not exist in the Ordinary Form, there is nothing to prevent the offering of the Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit (and thus the use of red vestments) on the ferial days after Pentecost Sunday.
Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave
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He compressed it, bounced it from machine to machine, overdubbed high and low octaves and speeded it up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our multicolored rainbow fits into just one octave in the middle of this broad spectrum - the octave we call light.
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The double octave can thus be divided into two equal parts each having a ratio of 2: 1.
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The Western Electric system was thoroughly thought out, with a performance exceeding acoustic cutters by two-and-a-half octaves and almost unlimited amplification.
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You have much too great a habit of speaking of a special octave, sestette, or line.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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The octave differs from the kilocycle in that each octave contains twice as many cycles as the previous one (or half as many as the following one).
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At the base of the musical experience seem to be (i) the experience of tones, as opposed to mere pitched sounds, where a tone is heard as being in ˜musical space™, that is, as bearing such relations to other tones as being higher or lower, or of the same kind (at the octave), and (ii) the experience of movement, as when we hear a melody as wandering far afield and then coming to rest where it began.
The Philosophy of Music
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While this is a matter which is fundamentally tied to the need for liturgical study and ecclesial authority, it may do well, particularly as we sit upon the very time itself, to leave off with a practical suggestion for parish priests wishing to recover some sense of the octave, even within the present circumstances of the modern Roman calendar.
Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave
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Medieval diatonicism, which did not include the principle of octave equivalence, was codified by Guido of Arezzo in the early 11th century: it acknowledged notes from G to e, arranged in seven overlapping hexachords.
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One wrong note is all it takes to distract the trumpeters playing their improvs a full octave higher than the rest of us and that puts off the clarinet players.
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Modern makers then started producing them with flat backs which made them almost identical to the octave mandola.
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‘First Evening Stars’ is an elegant study in two-voice semplice playing and legato octaves.
