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stival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. "The octaves of Easter." Jer. Taylor.

Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight. Bp. Wilkins.

theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a unison.

ic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.

ith a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves. -- Close time, a fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law. -- Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of t…

The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.

l progressions of two parts in a piece of harmony; as, consecutive fifths, or consecutive octaves, which are forbidden. Consecutive chords (Mus.), chords of the same kind suceeding one another without interruption.

The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.

The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale.

Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first. Diatonic scale (Mus.), a scale consisting of eight sounds with seven intervals, of which two are semitones and five are whole tones; a modern major or minor scale, as distinguished from the chromatic scale.

An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason.

ony (Mus.), harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.

note (Mus.), a note of double the length of the semibreve; a breve. See Breve. -- Double octave (Mus.), an interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth. -- Double pica. See under Pica. -- Double play (Baseball), a play by which two players are put out at the same time. --…

The interval of an octave.

Of or pertaining to the interval of the octave and the fourth.

An equal sounding; the consonance of the unison and its octaves.

A stop in an organ tuned two octaves above the diaposon.

A flute. Flaute piccolo ( Etym: [It., little flute], an octave flute. -- Flauto traverso ( Etym: [It., transverse flute], the German flute, held laterally, instead of being played, like the old flûte a bec, with a mouth piece at the end.

The octave of the seventh.