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- Octave - n. - The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.
- 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.
- Octave - n. - The whole diatonic scale itself.
- Octave - n. - The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
- Octave - n. - A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
- Octave - a. - Consisting of eight; eight.
- 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.
- Ninth - n. - An interval containing an octave and a second.
- Loco - adv. - A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
- Contrafagetto - n. - The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.
- Piccolo - n. - A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
- Twelfth - n. - An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.
- Eleventh - n. - The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.
- 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.
- Fourteenth - n. - The octave of the seventh.
- Univocal - a. - Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2.
- Inversion - n. - Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc.
- Polychord - n. - An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.
- Thirteenth - n. - The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.
- Diapason - n. - Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony.
- Eleventh - a. - Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.
- 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.
- 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.
- Diatonic - a. - Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
- 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.