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Archilute :: Archilute (n.) A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison..

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

Diapason :: Diapason (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale..

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

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

Thirteenth :: Thirteenth (n.) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.

Tenth :: Tenth (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third..

Violone :: Violone (n.) The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass..

Octave :: Octave (a.) Consisting of eight; eight.

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

Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenienc

Contrafagetto :: Contrafagetto (n.) The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon..

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