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

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

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..

Sonnet :: Sonnet (n.) A poem of fourteen lines, -- two stanzas, called the octave, being of four verses each, and two stanzas, called the sestet, of three verses each, the rhymes being adjusted by a particular rule..

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..

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

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

Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..

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

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

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..

Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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