The soprano warmed up her voice by singing the scales of several octaves. From LearnThat.org.
The same Mass has Dies Irae sung in octave alternation. From Wordnik.com. [Never Before Heard in North America] Reference
I call the octave, The octave and the bowlback, The Bowlback. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
Dies Irae was sung in octave alternatim by 250 people to create a beauty of enormous power. From Wordnik.com. [The Awesome Beauty of Silence] Reference
The "octave" scale of most of the human worlds was also a twelve-tone scale, but with differences. From Wordnik.com. [Ringworld]
Spiller's spirits to mount several notes in the octave. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
The drone was tuned to G, an octave below the chaunter. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Unto the end, in verses, a psalm for David, for the octave. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
Choose an octave most consonant with the range of the voice. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
Jehiel and Ozaziu, sung a song of victory for the octave upon harps. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
The octave above has double the number of vibrations of the lower note. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Bass parts were taken up an octave; sopranos were pitched to the heavens. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: 'Eat Pray Love' Merchandise Gets 72 Hours On Home Shopping Network. Doesn't That Miss The Point?] Reference
But anyway, that's - yes … Mr. DEACON: That's also up an octave, right?. From Wordnik.com. [On Tour With Dan Deacon And His Veggie Oil Van] Reference
That's four octaves below middle C, an octave lower than a piano can play. From Wordnik.com. [How I climbed inside an enormous organ] Reference
The band may tune the pipes to a C-major scale, a standard do-re-mi octave. From Wordnik.com. [So Percussion, Playing Pipes Bought for A Song] Reference
Then proceed to the next note; the whole of the octave may thus be gone over. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
The wave of a note an octave higher would be double the rate and half the length. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
The strung double, with the - the low strings have an octave string next to them. From Wordnik.com. [Songwriting and Protest with James McMurtry] Reference
The G clef is used in notation, but the notes sound an octave lower than they are written. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
So … Mr. DEACON: It is pitch shifted up an octave and the Chipmunks are doing the same thing. From Wordnik.com. [On Tour With Dan Deacon And His Veggie Oil Van] Reference
WESTERVELT: Orbison had a one-of-a-kind voice with a three-octave range plus occasional falsetto. From Wordnik.com. [Roy Orbison: A Great Voice, A Lonely Sound] Reference
She raised her voice almost an octave in the intense excitement she was evidently trying to combat. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
D and E an octave by pressure of the breath and lips on the reed, now taken directly into the mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
He had a kind of gravely voice and sometimes he would sing and hit a note and jump a whole octave down. From Wordnik.com. [Tribute to the Music of New Orleans] Reference
He fathered the science of music, and created the octave, the fifth, the third, and the tempered scale. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: From The Grateful Dead to Rhythm Devils: A Conversation with Mickey Hart] Reference
Other hairs vibrated to other notes, which were those of the middle octave of the piano and the next above it. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Mr. Scribner, "Janice said to the Sunday-school superintendent," when there isn't an octave in harmony on the old piano?. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
This artistic sensibility is the one undoubted advantage of man over other animals, the extra octave in the gamut of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
In both movements the violin is replaced by the organ an octave lower, the orchestral accompaniment remaining where it was. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
This instrument with a one-octave keyboard sticking out of the front of it is something a friend of mine found at a yard sale. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Dewan's Delightful Dewanatrons] Reference
By using basic increments of one volt per octave change of pitch, Moog was able to make simple circuits using everyday components. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, what's that sound: Moog synthesisers] Reference
"Men of the sword like us ever reverence tierce, quarte, and octave; but as for the folds of the cassock, I know nothing of them.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The three drones are usually tuned to A, the two smallest one octave below the A of the chaunter, and the largest two octaves below. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
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