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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Violoncello :: Violoncello (n.) A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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..

Eleventh :: Eleventh (n.) The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.

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

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

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

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

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

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