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Consecutive :: Consecutive (a.) Having similarity of sequence; -- said of certain parallel progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden..

Diapason :: Diapason (n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Plagal :: Plagal (a.) Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave..

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..

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

Eighth :: Eighth (n.) The interval of an octave.

Fourteenth :: Fourteenth (n.) The octave of the seventh.

Piccolo :: Piccolo (n.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute..

Nineteenth :: Nineteenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a fifth.

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

Disdiapason :: Disdiapason (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason..

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