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How to use octaves in a sentence

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His octaves come with astonishing drive, the double notes with gorgeous power.
A remarkable passage in unisons and octaves follows which leads to a fugue bristling with cross-rhythms.
Lerner conquered the score's thunderous octaves and tone clusters brilliantly.
They chant in a deep harmonic, which can be heard sounding three octaves at once during stages in the ritual.
The coda makes use of octaves and large chords, which may cause difficulty for smaller hands.
Boccaccio's poem, a pastoral romance in rhymed octaves, has been aptly described as a hymn to nature.
Not only has the poet repeatedly discovered different dramatic structures, she also discovered whole new octaves of tone.
The B section is a virtual solo for secondo, with primo finishing the melodies with scale passages in octaves.
The modern concert harp has 46 or 47 strings and a compass of six and a half octaves.
Understanding that the violinist would have difficulty with the fingered octaves, he incorporated the anticipated problem into his own part.
Verily I say unto thee, practiseth your fingered octaves on ye violin and ye shall always have loads of work, even unto the end of the world.
Such musical notions as octaves, chords, scales, and keys can all be demystified and understood logically using simple mathematics.
The dulcian was made in several sizes and has a range of about two and one-half octaves.
His choral setting, initially in octaves, with its transposed Dorian mode on G, evolves into a kind of fantasia on the original responsory.
All of sudden he does this incredible run where he goes up two octaves and back down in quadruple time.
Its musical range spans about four octaves, and the sound has some similarities to that of a Western violin.
Bees and butterflies can see ultraviolet rays, and bats and porpoises can hear sounds two octaves beyond our range.
His scale organizes the notes into octaves, with sharps and flats in between.
The monks' chanting is heard as a deep growling sound, which is the result of producing three octaves simultaneously.
He restates the theme in octaves and floats it away over his own restatement, like a ghost score.
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Toward the end of October, his asthenia had diminished enough to allow him to play the piano weakly in three octaves.
Increasing technical demands, sudden pyrotechnical flights into the higher octaves brought the 'chin rest' into being.
This brings the compass of the basset horn to a range of four octaves from, actual sounds.
In this case, then, the upper of the two octaves answers to the Hypo-dorian key, and the lower to the locrian.
This is an extremely brilliant descending passage in octaves, with the ninth used as a passing note.
Its compass comprehends three octaves rising from B flat below the bass staff.
All notes exactly one or more octaves apart are regarded as harmonically identical.
Presently there arose a prolonged wail, slurring up through two octaves, and subsiding again.
The compass is six octaves from C, five leger-lines below the bass staff.
The fifteen characters, it has been noticed, form two diatonic octaves.
He was not beautiful, and his voice was three octaves above F in alt.
Dede Antanas is asleep, and so are the Szedvilases, husband and wife, the former snoring in octaves.
The group plays up to six octaves of handbells with only six to eight ringers, performing classical, religious, jazz, popular and traditional Japanese music.
The air was calm, full of the eternal hum of insects, a tropical chorus of many octaves, from the deep drone of the bee to the high, keen pipe of the mosquito.
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