Common hand span

Usage examples of octave.

I lost my trouble and my time, for I did not become acquainted with the shore till the octave of Christmas, and with the small door six months afterwards.

Everard Home has cited several examples, and Heidmann of Vienna has treated two musicians, one of whom always perceived in the affected ear, during damp weather, tones an octave lower than in the other ear.

As the bridge of the crwth was nearly flat, the adjacent strings were octaves, or related in such a way that when sounding together chords were produced.

Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast.

Octave Uzanne, though he had not himself visited Dux, had indeed procured copies of some of the manuscripts, a few of which were published by him in Le Livre, in 1887 and 1889.

Six symmetries are identified: pitch translation invariance, octave translation invariance, time scaling invariance, time translation invariance, amplitude scaling invariance and pitch reflection invariance.

This invariance corresponds to the observation that notes separated by multiples of an octave have a similar subjective quality.

We find that octave translation invariance is not a required invariance of perception.

This contrast between the efficiency of digital and analogue representations appears in the theory of octave translation invariance in Chapter 11.

Pitch translation invariance is a functional requirement and octave translation invariance is an implementation requirement.

Seeing her change color, Sallenauve, Nais, and Madame Octave de Camps ran to her to know if she were ill.

The octave typically introduces the theme or problem, with the sestet providing the resolution.

The octave for the public event, the sestet for the unchanging Marius or Mario.

It has fourteen lines that divide into an octave of a rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA and a sestet CDC DCD, really two tercets.

With the Greeks the tetrachord was the unit of analysis as the octave is with us to-day, and all Greek scales are capable of division into two tetrachords, the arrangement of the intervals between the tones in each tetrachord differentiating one scale from another, but the tetrachords themselves always consisting of groups of four tones, the highest being a perfect fourth above the lowest.