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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (redirect from Octave of Christian Unity)
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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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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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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Octave Feuillet (11 July 1821 – 29 December 1890) was a French novelist and dramatist. His work stands midway between the romanticists and the realists...
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History of the periodic table (redirect from Law of Octaves)
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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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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C (musical note) (redirect from C in the eighth octave)
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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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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"Octave" has two senses in Christian liturgical usage. In the first sense, it is the eighth day after a feast, counted inclusively, and so always falls...
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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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Nicolas François Octave Tassaert (Paris, 26 July 1800 – Paris, 24 April 1874) was a French painter of portraits and genre, religious, historical and allegorical...
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Jean Landry (physician) (redirect from Jean Baptiste Octave Landry de Thézillat)
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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Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (category Articles with short description)
with a short octave in the bass, since they contain large intervals for the left hand that cannot be reached on the modern keyboard. The short octave was...
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Octave Pirmez (1832 – May 1883) was a Belgian author born in Châtelineau. Octave belonged to a well-known Belgian family. His cousin, Edouard Pirmez, was...
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