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Ex. 4 shows an octave of the chromatic scale beginning on C, notated in sharps ascending and flats descending.
The mastering of the first altissimo octave is the most difficult, and should be done before going higher.
The unaided eye is sensitive to just one octave out of the vast spectrum of electromagnetic radiation that exists in the universe.
The majority of the tunes have a range of one octave plus an extension of a third or a fourth.
According to the invention, an octave coupler effect is achieved by carrying out the following formula.
Therefore, there are 12 intervals of a half-step forming what is called an octave.
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.
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.
Also, look for any octave doublings or unisons, circling or otherwise marking them between the staves.
He began to laugh, and then raised his voice about an octave higher to mimic my mom.
The guittern was tuned an octave above the top four courses of a bandora, so bandora players could use it directly.
Modern makers then started producing them with flat backs which made them almost identical to the octave mandola.
Another oft-stated rule was that a perfect 5th, unison, or octave should be approached by the nearest imperfect interval.
Psychotic disco drums and vivacious octave bass lines introduce us to the Liars new mania.
The E-flat transposition easily can be accomplished by reading the part as if written in bass clef up one octave.
On the watery desert from Pentecost to Christmas, they stay on the Isle of Ailbe from Christmas through the octave of Epiphany.
They composed new liturgies in his honor and celebrated his death with a full octave of worship.
The tambourin has a wide dynamic range, and the galoubet is relatively gentle in its lower register, and shrill in its high, overblown octave.
For this particular pattern there is a classical fingering pattern which is repeated over each consecutive octave.
As the player went higher, more notes were available in each consecutive octave.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Dukas uses them later in divided violins, violas and cellos, having thus a triad of harmonics doubled in the octave.
One of Edith's boots creaked exactly an octave below the pitch of the preacher's fluty voice.
The G clef is used in notation, but the notes sound an octave lower than they are written.
The main movement of Poliziano's poem is intrusted to the traditional octave stanza, but we find passages of terza rima.
The string, considered as halved by one node, gives the first overtone, or octave of the fundamental.
The bombardon in B flat or C, an octave lower than the euphonium, corresponds to the contrabass tuba in the orchestra.
Trio in D major, cantabile theme for violin, doubled by the viola in the octave below.
He desires to abolish temperament by additional keys, and has constructed an enharmonic organ with forty sounds in the octave.
While following the Italian rime-schemes, however, he was not careful to observe any division between octave and sestet.
Wordsworth also showed no regard for the careful division of thought between octave and sestet.
They were long and lean and finicky-fingered hands, the sort that could span an octave much better than they could hold a hayfork.
Metrical students will delight in the double rhymes of the octave, which play so great a part in the suspensive music.
Otherwise it will be doing that which approximates stretching the middle C string, for example, until it will produce its octave.
The octave higher commences with an up-bow, the action being exactly reversed until the heel is reached.
One of these must be in the octave and the other in the sestet.
A greater liberty is to vary the rimes of the octave to abbaacca.
It also belongs to the octave group, and is diversified with a canzonet.
Mrs. stager lowered her voice in an octave of deeper confidentiability.
And she had one lower octave of Pipes, like a Brakeman on the Erie.
The octave above has double the number of vibrations of the lower note.
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