octave
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Some things about Joni’s musicianship have deteriorated: She doesn’t play much guitar anymore, and her voice is an octave lower than it was.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025
It became a defining song for the genre, marrying Thomas's gospel-trained, four octave vocals to a pulsing electronic beat.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024
What if that same octave were equally divided into 14 tones, or 16?
From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2024
In the musical analogy, important musical intervals based on ratios of frequencies are the fourth, 4:3, the fifth, 3:2, and the octave, 2:1.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2024
Later, octave came to mean a choice of twelve notes, not eight, and we got saddled with the wrong descriptor for ever, but I’ll explain that development when it arrives.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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