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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

Equisonance :: Equisonance (n.) An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

Disdiapason :: Disdiapason (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason..

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

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

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

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..

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