单词 | octave |
释义 | octave/ˈɒktɪv /noun 1 Music A series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other.These ratios produce the eight notes of an octave in the musical scale corresponding to the white keys on a piano....
1.1The interval between the two notes at the extremes of an octave.What is it that makes notes one octave apart fit together so well?...
1.2Each of the two notes at the extremes of an octave.Meanwhile, strong octave Bs in the bass, along with the lengthy pedals necessary to sustain them, create the tremendous resonance this passage requires....
1.3The two notes at the extremes of an octave sounding together.Lerner conquered the score's thunderous octaves and tone clusters brilliantly....
2A group or stanza of eight lines; an octet.The second quatrain of Smith's sonnet alludes to Petrarch's octave....
3The seventh day after a Church festival.On the watery desert from Pentecost to Christmas, they stay on the Isle of Ailbe from Christmas through the octave of Epiphany. 3.1A period of eight days beginning with the day of a Church festival.They composed new liturgies in his honor and celebrated his death (unique for any local saint) with a full octave of worship. 4 Fencing The last of eight parrying positions. 5British A wine cask holding an eighth of a pipe. Phraseslaw of octaves OriginMiddle English (in sense 3): via Old French from Latin octava dies 'eighth day'. |
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