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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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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