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Definition of Octaves
1. octave [n] - See also: octave
Lexicographical Neighbors of Octaves
Literary usage of Octaves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"From the fourth century onwards the celebration of octaves is mentioned ...
Certain octaves were considered as privileged days, on which work was forbidden. ..."
2. Manual of Harmony by Salomon Jadassohn, Paul Torek, Henry Bickford Pasmore (1890)
"Concealed octaves and fifths, of course, arise only in parallel motion, ...
Concealed octaves, Concealed octaves, one voice moving diatonic- by skips. ally, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"From the fourth century onwards the celebration of octaves is mentioned ...
Certain octaves were considered as privileged days, on which work was forbidden. ..."
4. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"On this rests the prohibition of consecutive Fifths and octaves. ... The meaning
of prohibiting consecutive octaves has been made clear by musical practice. ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"... in packages and are matched to certain octaves for certain instruments, to
wit, organs and pianos, five octaves for organs and seven octaves for pianos, ..."
6. Violin Playing as I Teach it by Leopold Auer (1921)
"FINGERED octaves Fingered octaves are, so far as I am able to discover, a product
of the last quarter of the past century. There is a bare possibility, ..."
7. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"V. The harshness of fifths and the poverty of consecutive octaves, sounded in
direct motion, are also perceptible, even when these intervals are separated ..."
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