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

Utas :: Utas (n.) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael..

Univocal :: Univocal (a.) Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2..

Unison :: Unison (n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves..

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

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

Eleventh :: Eleventh (n.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

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

Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones..

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..

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

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

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

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

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..

Principal :: Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason..

Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival..

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

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..

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..

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