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How to use Octave in a sentence

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Other aviators who made similar flights at that time were Otto Lilienthal, Percy Pilcher, and Octave Chanute.
The newest members of the Church return during the Easter Octave for mystagogy, that it, post-baptismal catechesis.
There is also evidence of glossing the texts of the Epistles read in the masses of the Christmas Octave.
Best of Show in the Conferencing for Service Provider category was awarded to MeetAbout from Octave Communications at Telecon West, Anaheim, California.
Althea Gaye with Ray Fullard as the Octave Tinkling Twosome.
As the player went higher, more notes were available in each consecutive octave.
In every type of musical scale, the notes progress in a series of intervals from a keynote to the octave above or below.
The octave differs from the kilocycle in that each octave contains twice as many cycles as the previous one.
His resonant use of the bass string to render the notes of a raga in the lower octave has lent gravity and depth to his recitals.
The band does its best when it's not being noisy with their octave guitar chord sliding and noodling.
Modern makers then started producing them with flat backs which made them almost identical to the octave mandola.
The piece's next movement, a canon at the octave, frames the first four movements together, but the quartet chose not to play it tonight.
The majority of the tunes have a range of one octave plus an extension of a third or a fourth.
These ratios produce the eight notes of an octave in the musical scale corresponding to the white keys on a piano.
Equal tempering is a system for breaking up each octave into twelve equal semi-tones.
This scale divides the octave into six equal steps, each a whole tone apart.
There was a long pause, and when it was over Mom's voice had risen up an octave or two, as though she were nervous or upset about something.
I also had to learn, in public speech, to drop down half an octave and use a chest rather than a head voice, especially south of the border.
The tambourin has a wide dynamic range, and the galoubet is relatively gentle in its lower register, and shrill in its high, overblown octave.
Their range and tessitura increases and, with training, children are singing well over an octave in tune and in time by the end of first grade.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Octave Piron was once very prominent as an excellent vocalist and guitarist.
The sextet is well divided from the Octave, the climax is clearly underlined.
Sir Knight Octave de Maurice asks for a formula for a glycin developer.
Metrical students will delight in the double rhymes of the octave, which play so great a part in the suspensive music.
He desires to abolish temperament by additional keys, and has constructed an enharmonic organ with forty sounds in the octave.
While following the Italian rime-schemes, however, he was not careful to observe any division between octave and sestet.
They were long and lean and finicky-fingered hands, the sort that could span an octave much better than they could hold a hayfork.
Dukas uses them later in divided violins, violas and cellos, having thus a triad of harmonics doubled in the octave.
One of Edith's boots creaked exactly an octave below the pitch of the preacher's fluty voice.
Wordsworth also showed no regard for the careful division of thought between octave and sestet.
The octave higher commences with an up-bow, the action being exactly reversed until the heel is reached.
The main movement of Poliziano's poem is intrusted to the traditional octave stanza, but we find passages of terza rima.
Otherwise it will be doing that which approximates stretching the middle C string, for example, until it will produce its octave.
The string, considered as halved by one node, gives the first overtone, or octave of the fundamental.
The G clef is used in notation, but the notes sound an octave lower than they are written.
The bombardon in B flat or C, an octave lower than the euphonium, corresponds to the contrabass tuba in the orchestra.
Trio in D major, cantabile theme for violin, doubled by the viola in the octave below.
A greater liberty is to vary the rimes of the octave to abbaacca.
Early this morning went out shooting with octave de Mussidan.
The other, octave Feuillet, was anti-Naturalist to the core.
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