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octaveIn music, a span of eight notes as measured on the white notes of a piano keyboard. It corresponds to the consonance of first and second harmonics. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"Those chords give the fifth and the octave," said Mr. This first part is called the octave, from the Latin word octo, eight. To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, "Senor, we are players of Angulo el Malo's company; we have been acting the play of 'The Cortes of Death' this morning, which is the octave of Corpus Christi, in a village behind that hill, and we have to act it this afternoon in that village which you can see from this; and as it is so near, and to save the trouble of undressing and dressing again, we go in the costumes in which we perform. |
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