In music, an octave (Latin: octavus: eighth) or perfect octave (sometimes called the diapason) is a series of eight notes occupying the interval between...

GNU Octave is a scientific programming language for scientific computing and numerical computation. Octave helps in solving linear and nonlinear problems...

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...

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...

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...

The octave mandolin (US and Canada) or octave mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted string instrument with four pairs of strings tuned in fifths, G−D−A−E...

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...

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...

Due to the principle of octave equivalence, scales are generally considered to span a single octave, with higher or lower octaves simply repeating the pattern...

An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian). The most common rhyme scheme...

Major scale with octave-down effect Fuzz, distortion and octaver (electric guitar) Problems playing these files? See media help. Octave effect boxes are...

Octave (French pronunciation: [ɔktav]) is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Octave Boudouard (1872–1923), French chemist Octave Chanute...

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...

Pseudo Octave Pseudo Octave Problems playing this file? See media help. Perfect Octave Perfect Octave Problems playing this file? See media help. A pseudo-octave...

Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau (French: [ɔktav miʁbo]; 16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer,...

In electronics, an octave (symbol: oct) is a logarithmic unit for ratios between frequencies, with one octave corresponding to a doubling of frequency...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave. Although scientific pitch notation was originally designed as a companion...

ancient Greece, an octave species (εἶδος τοῦ διὰ πασῶν, or σχῆμα τοῦ διὰ πασῶν) is a specific sequence of intervals within an octave. In Elementa harmonica...

Eugene Octave Sykes, Jr. (July 16, 1876 – June 21, 1945) was a justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court. He served as the first Chairman of the Federal...

The short octave was a method of assigning notes to keys in early keyboard instruments (harpsichord, clavichord, organ), for the purpose of giving the...

Octave One is a group of American techno musicians composed of siblings Lenny Burden and Lawrence Burden, sometimes associated with their three other brothers...

temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of...

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...

The rule of the octave is a way of harmonizing each note of the diatonic scale, reflecting common practice, and has its origin in the practice of thorough...

used for two different octaves. On a saxophone, the octave key is positioned next to the left-hand thumb rest. Pressing the octave key opens the top tone...

The Sicilian octave (Italian: ottava siciliana) is a verse form consisting of eight lines of eleven syllables each, called a hendecasyllable. The form...