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

Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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