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Pronunciation: [ˈɒktɪv] (IPA)

Octave is a musical term that refers to the interval between two pitches where one note has a frequency that is double the frequency of the other. It is a fundamental concept in music theory, and there are many synonyms that can be used to describe it. Some of the synonyms for octave include an eighth, a perfect eighth, an eight-note, and a diapason. Other synonyms include a double pitch, a duplicate, and a twofold increase in frequency. The octave is an essential component of many musical scales and is found in many different styles of music around the world.
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    • Proper noun, singular
      octavian, Octavius.

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    division, musical interval, division of the octave, eight-note division, eight-note span, octave span, perfect octave.

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Usage examples for Octave

However, in the virginal the c string is considerably less than twice as long as the string an octave above.
"Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries"
John D. Shortridge
She ran down a most contented little trip, with repeats and returns, in a G-octave, for the last line.
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
I lost my trouble and my time, for I did not become acquainted with the shore till the octave of Christmas, and with the small door six months afterwards.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Famous quotes with Octave

  • Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.
    Stephen Fry
  • You can put in all the difficulties, jumps, runs, and any other devilish complexities you like, except octave spans and similar features which do not suit the formation of hands.
    Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  • I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
    Igor Stravinsky
  • I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The external world of physics has thus become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions.In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life.The sparsely spread nuclei of electric force become a tangible solid; their restless agitation becomes the warmth of summer; the octave of aethereal vibrations becomes a gorgeous rainbow. Nor does the alchemy stop here. In the transmuted world new significances arise which are scarcely to be traced in the world of symbols; so that it becomes a world of beauty and purpose — and, alas, suffering and evil. The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances.
    Arthur Eddington

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