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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

Suboctuple :: Suboctave (a.) Alt. of Suboctupl.

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

Ninth :: Ninth (n.) An interval containing an octave and a second.

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

Scale :: Scale (n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor..

Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.

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

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..

Tone :: Tone (n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones..

Octave :: Octave (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself.

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..

Ophicleide :: Ophicleide (n.) A large brass wind instrument, formerly used in the orchestra and in military bands, having a loud tone, deep pitch, and a compass of three octaves; -- now generally supplanted by bass and contrabass tubas..

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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