rule of the octave

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rule of the octave

In music, an 18th-century procedure in the treatment of thorough-bass, especially in Italy (regola dell' ottava), It provides a series of simple chords of the tonic, dominant, and subdominant for the elementary harmonization of a bass formed by a rising diatonic scale.

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