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Definition of Musical octave
1. Noun. A musical interval of eight tones.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musical Octave
Literary usage of Musical octave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music (1899)
"THE musical octave. BY C. STANILAND WAKE. In his very interesting work, "Plato
and the Other Companions of Socrates," Grote, the English historian of Greece ..."
2. Orientalisms in Bible Lands by Edwin Wilbur Rice (1910)
"Because the Oriental musical scale differs from that used in the West, and also
because the Western musical octave has only tones and semi-tones, ..."
3. Psychology: Empirical and Rational by Michael Maher (1909)
"The points of difference are however greater, (a) The character of each of the
tones of the musical octave is so distinct and well marked as to have been ..."
4. Psychology by Michael Maher (1890)
"(«) The character of each of the tones of the musical octave is so distinct and
well marked as to have been recognized from the earliest times ; the colours ..."
5. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1808)
"Since each of the notes of a musical octave, may be considered as, or taken tor
a key note, there must be some other note of that or of the following octave ..."
6. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1879)
"... settled into their true shapes about the time that the modern musical octave
was prepared for them, and the modern musical art created, and not before. ..."
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