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    The short octave was a method of assigning notes to keys in early keyboard instruments (harpsichord, clavichord, organ), for the purpose of giving the...
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  • In music, an octave (Latin: octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) is an interval between two notes, one having twice the...
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    GNU Octave is a scientific programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation. Octave helps in solving linear and nonlinear problems...
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    Musical keyboard (category Articles with short description)
    combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the interval of an octave. Pressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument...
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    Harpsichord (category Articles with short description)
    over five octaves, and the smallest have under four. Usually, the shortest keyboards were given extended range in the bass with a "short octave". The traditional...
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  • Scale (music) (redirect from Octave scale)
    consecutive series of notes that form a progression between one note and its octave", typically by order of pitch or fundamental frequency. The word "scale"...
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    Octave Chanute (February 18, 1832 – November 23, 1910) was a French-American civil engineer and aviation pioneer. He advised and publicized many aviation...
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    Pedal keyboard (category Articles with short description)
    and G♯ in the lowest octave of the manuals and pedal keyboards, but not a C♯ and D♯. From the 16th to 18th centuries, short octave keyboards were also...
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    Clef (redirect from Octave treble clef)
    transpose at the octave is generally written at the transposed pitch, but is sometimes seen written at concert pitch using an octave clef. This section...
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    Pseudo Octave Pseudo Octave Problems playing this file? See media help. Perfect Octave Perfect Octave Problems playing this file? See media help. In music...
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    Quirinal Palace (category Articles with short description)
    jump of 18 meters and has a single keyboard of 41 notes with a first short octave, without pedalboard. Overall, the Quirinal gardens extend over 4 hectares...
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  • The Octave of Easter is the eight-day period, or octave, that begins on Easter Sunday and ends with Second Sunday of Easter. It marks the beginning of...
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  • Octave illusion The octave illusion: two pitches at 400 and 800 Hz, played in each ear, alternating ears every 250 milliseconds, for 10 seconds Problems...
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    note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave. Although scientific pitch notation was originally designed as a companion...
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    In Western tonal music theory, an augmented octave is the sum of a perfect octave and an augmented unison or chromatic semitone. It is the interval between...
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  • Interval (music) (category Articles with short description)
    the ratio between two sonic frequencies. For example, any two notes an octave apart have a frequency ratio of 2:1. This means that successive increments...
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    Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau (French: [ɔktav miʁbo]; 16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer,...
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    An octave twelve is a type of 12-string guitar fitted with a short-scale neck 15.5 inches (39 cm) and a small solid body. It is tuned one octave higher...
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  • Octave is the ninth album by the Moody Blues (the eighth by this particular line-up), released in 1978, and their first release after a substantial hiatus...
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  • An octave band is a frequency band that spans one octave (Play). In this context an octave can be a factor of 2[full citation needed] or a factor of 10 0...
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  • one octave below middle C. In older stoplists it usually means that a rank was not yet full compass, omitting the bottom octave, until that octave was...
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    elements, and in some cases had two elements at the same position in the same octave. Newlands's table was ignored or ridiculed by some of his contemporaries...
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  • In electronics, an octave (symbol: oct) is a logarithmic unit for ratios between frequencies, with one octave corresponding to a doubling of frequency...
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    between 18 January and 25 January in the Northern Hemisphere. It is an octave, that is, an observance lasting eight days. The Week of Prayer for Christian...
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    Augmented seventh (category Articles with short description)
    perfect octave (Play), because both semitones have the same size. In 19 equal temperament, on the other hand, the interval is 63 cents short of an octave, i...
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    In music, a blind octave is the alternate doubling above and below a successive scale or trill notes: "the passage being played...alternately in the higher...
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    in each octave, giving their name in the Helmholtz system, and the "German method" of octave nomenclature. (The octave below the contra octave is known...
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  • octave in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency. Octave may...
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    Jean Baptiste Octave Landry de Thézillat (10 October 1826 – October 1865) was a French physician and medical researcher. He is credited with discovering...
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    music from Western culture, a diminished octave (Play) is an interval produced by narrowing a perfect octave by a chromatic semitone. As such, the two...
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