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"Octave" in a Sentence (20 examples)
If I change key, I can't hold the pitch. It's better if we go with the original key, and I sometimes sing an octave lower.
Certain pieces of music would be more melodious an octave higher.
There are eight notes in an octave.
There are twelve semitones in an octave.
There are twelve half steps in an octave.
As a lower-set singer, I find myself doing most songs the octave down.
Go down one octave.
A seventh is the seventh note of an octave.
Building upon research by Roger Shepard and Jean-Claude Risset, Deutsch found a way to build a "staircase" of musical tones that seems to both go up without end, and just like in Escher's illusion, they appear to never go up to another octave. By changing the harmonics of each tone, Deutsch had in effect, turned a linear musical scale into a circle.
The melody jumps up an octave at the beginning, then later drops back down an octave.
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The singer was known for astounding clarity over her entire five-octave range.
The octave has a pitch ratio of 2:1.
The bass starts on a low E, and the tenor comes in on the octave.
With mournful melody it continued this octave.
If they always do a lateral parry quarte, and never a semicircular octave, that gives you an opening.
[…] the Chamberlains' records of the companies' visits to their towns are, for the most part, not precisely dates, but merely group them together […] within their annual accounting period which normally […] ran from Michaelmas (29 September) to Michaelmas, or its octave (6 October).
It was extended to the entire Church by 1814, and then in 1913 the feast was transferred to September 15, the octave day of the Birth of Mary and the day after the Exaltation of the Cross.
1870, The Night Hours of the Church, trans. Rev. J. M. Neale Of an Octave the Office is said. or at least commemorated, (when any Sunday or Feast intervene), for eight successive days.
Mercury then joins its higher octave and generous counterpart Jupiter early next week, and it opens gates of opportunity.
Boccace[…] is said to have invented the octave rhye
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