This system is similar to ours in that it employs fifths in the same succession as far as G♯, the most of them, however, being an octave higher.
It has a pitch about an octave higher than a closed pipe of the same length.
A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
And the shrill falsetto rose an octave higher, as she gave the snuff-box a furious tap on the lid.
As in the strings, so in the wood-wind it is advisable to double in octaves any melody situated in the extremely high or low compass; an octave lower in the first case, an octave higher in the second.
A broad melody dolce ed espressivo, afterwards doubled by the first violins an octave higher.
Thus the piccolo will be doubled by the flute, oboe or clarinet an octave lower; the double bassoon will be doubled by bassoon, clarinet or bass clarinet an octave higher.
Closing the holes again and blowing harder, we get the scale an octave higher.
That is to say, the pipes are made double the length actually required, but are made to sound an octave higher by means of a hole pierced half-way up the pipe.
Shortly after the introduction of pneumatic action, an organ with an occasional octave coupler, that is a coupler which depressed a key an octave higher or lower than the one originally struck, was sometimes met with.
An eight-foot stop on the organ produces tones of the same pitches as the piano when corresponding keys are struck: A four-foot stop sounds tones anoctave higher and a two-foot stop tones two octaves higher.
The notes are printed as for the flute, but the player understands that the tone is to sound an octave higher.
From this it follows that the female voice is not, as supposed by some, simply a reproduction of the male an octave higher.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octave higher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
