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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Authentic :: Authentic (n.) Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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 first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines..

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

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