octave
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The primary theme repeats a climbing four-note figure three times before a sudden plunge of a full octave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Hammond B3 swells on the verse’s first pass, sticking close to the song’s melody, but on the second, it jumps an octave in an improvisation that nearly scorches the ear.
From Salon ● May 15, 2026
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
In the chorus, she jumps the octave to scream the song’s title — it’s haunting and unforgiving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
The word "octave" comes from a Latin root meaning "eight."
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
Ms. O’Hara, best known for her crystalline singing in musical revivals, proves to have a similarly wide range of octaves when it comes to physical comedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
It can elegantly vault octaves, scoop notes without a croaky glottal fry and crack words into multi-note, velvety yodels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
For what it’s worth, though, they did find that the waves corresponded to the note of B-flat, about 57 octaves below the middle C note on a piano.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
This excitation triggers the generation of harmonic electronic states that give rise to single photons -- similar to how musical harmonics produce notes across multiple octaves.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
Then, horror of horrors, her voice drops two octaves.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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