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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.

r which it is written should be performed alone, or with no other chords than unisons and octaves.

nceled, 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 convenience that the same t…

d 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.

The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.

A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.

re, mi, etc., variously modified, with other simple signs of duration, of upper or lower octave, etc. See Sol-fa.

The common chord, consisting of a tone with its third and fifth, with or without the octave.

A triple octave, or twenty-second. Busby.

ved (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. Th…

An interval comprising an octave and a fifth.

f vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves.

Having unison of sound, as the octave in music. See Unison, n., 2.

The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael. Cowell. The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St. Hilary next ensuing she was crowned. Holinshed.

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.

The largest instrument of the bass-viol kind, having strings tuned an octave below those of the violoncello; the contrabasso; -- called also double bass. [Written also violono.]