Octave Feuillet has produced a little book of immense power, in which the sketches of character are as vivid as if he had had no moral after-thought in his work.
By Octave Feuillet, author of "The Romance of a Poor Young Man," etc.
To each of these seven modes is attached another, in which the melody, while having the same final or keynote, instead of ascending to the octave above, ranges from the fourth below it to the fifth above.
In order to distract Sallenauve's thoughts from this anxiety, Madame de l'Estorade introduced him to Monsieur Octave de Camps, the latter having expressed a great desire to know him.
Seeing her change color, Sallenauve, Nais, and Madame Octave de Camps ran to her to know if she were ill.
Octave Chanute] It was in the fifteenth century that men first began to make flying a scientific study by making records and, in part at least, tabulating the results of their experiments.
At this time the Wright brothers were working with Octave Chanute, the Chicago inventor, engineer and scientist whom they had invited to Kitty Hawk to advise them.
Among these, besides the Wrights, were the Americans Octave Chanute and A.
They fashioned their gliders of two parallel main planes like those of Octave Chanute.
This brings us around again to the activities of the Wright brothers, who started their work with the glider built along the lines laid down by Octave Chanute.
Samuel Pierpont Langley of the Smithsonian Institution and Octave Chanute, the great American pioneers in aviation, were making their early experiments.
In order to obtain the protection of Heaven by the intercession of the Holy Virgin, the pope and the fathers of the council ordered that the octave of the Nativity should be celebrated in the church.
On the fifth day of April,[313] the Tuesday after the octave of Easter, Louis IX.
Octave passages are usually played across two strings, with the thumb and third finger, the thumb stopping the lower note on the lower string, and the third finger stopping its octave on the higher string.
This passage, which remains in the lower range of the instrument, sounds much more brilliant if taken as an ordinary passage across the strings, than if attempted with the usual octave fingering.
The octave higher commences with an up-bow, the action being exactly reversed until the heel is reached.
An example of the latter exception is the final octave passage in the Rondo of the favourite Beethoven Sonata for 'cello (No.
The reason is that the portion of string at each side of (b) being of equal length, the string naturally divides itself into halves; we have found that this gives the octave to the open string.
However, for clearness and simplicity in reading, the range of the bass clef is extended by means of leger lines as far as A, anoctave higher than the top line of the clef.
Occasionally one comes acrossoctave passages which are either impossible to be played in the usual manner of thumb and third finger--or else sound better to be played with different fingering.
Illustration] As before stated it is usual to carry the bass clef as far up as A above three leger lines, this is really the treble A, and not an octave lower.
This octave middle figure continues without interruption for sixteen measures, and then, after the chords are repeated, is continued again for the same length of time.
The thirteenth, a very brilliant octave variation, which in the fourteenth is carried to a still higher point, and leads immediately to a finale, which concludes the first book.
In the ninth, an extremely brilliantoctave effect.
So my playing was not as spirited as I should have liked it to be; but I got through it pretty correctly, excepting the octave passage,--some parts coming out better than they had ever done whilst I was studying them.
Its four strings were tuned an octave below those of the violin, and, consequently, a fourth below the common viola, or tenor, and a fifth above the violoncello.
The first part of this memorial advocated the division of the Monochord, so as to split the interval between the key-note and its octave into twelve equal semi-tones.
He can bring down within the compass of the octavemoods that are outside the pale of mortals.
This giant, if ever there was one, played at a funereal tempo the octave passages in the left hand of the Heroic Polonaise of Chopin (Opus 53).
The interval consisting of ten conjunct degrees; the interval made up of an octave and a fourth.
A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is anoctave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.
Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
An apparatus for coupling two octave notes, capable of being attached to a keyed instrument.
When, for instance, we give the third c1 e1, we hear the c, lying an octave lower than the third, sounding at the same time as a combination tone.
In the first octave we find only one tone; in the second, two; in the third, all the tones of the major chord with the minor seventh.
When, however, many untuned instruments sound together, or when all the keys within an octave are struck on the same time, then it is a noise that we hear.
A clear, sympathetic, silvery ring is produced by the sounding of the seventh with the octave immediately above it.
By this form the fundamental tone is the strongest, and the over-tones are heard ascending to the third octave with decreasing degrees of strength.
The high octave of a tone has in the same time exactly double the number of vibrations of the tone itself.
Likewise, we find in the fifth octave thirty-two tones, which number is doubled in the sixth.
The final scene has been graphically described by Madame Octave Feuillet as she witnessed it in her childhood some fifty years ago.
Notes written in the bass clef are generally, for some unexplained reason, placed an octave lower than the real sounds.
It stands, therefore, an octavehigher than the modern horn in E[flat] (which measures some 13 ft.
Practice will soon enable him to render a full octave with fair accuracy and to perform a simple melody that shall be recognizable at a short distance.
The intervening days are said to be "of" or within itsOctave and partake of the character of the Festival.
Trinity Sunday is a Festival of late institution, as the day on which it is observed was originally kept as the Octave of Whitsun Day.
Originally this date was observed as the Octave of Christmas.
The first Sunday after Easter is theOctave of the Queen of Festivals and is commonly called "Low Sunday.
Trinity Sunday was formerly the Octave of Whitsun Day, and probably for this reason its Proper Preface is not repeated during the week.
The opening phrases of both octave and sestette are very fine; but the second quatrain and the second terzina, though with a quality of beauty, both seem somewhat to lack distinctness.
I have altered the last line of octave in Lost Days.
In the year of the Lord 1381, and on the second day of December, being the Octave of St. Katherine, Virgin and Martyr, the venerable and most devout Master John Ruesbroeck died in the district of Brabant.
In the year of the Lord 1477, on the Octave of the Feast of the visitation of the Blessed Mary, and after Nones, that is at about the eighth hour, died Gerlac, son of Wolter.
In the same year, on the Octave of the Feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, when Matins was ended, died our venerable Father, William Voerniken, the fourth Prior of Windesem.
In the same year in the month of September the disease laid hold on certain of our household, for the pestilence did mightily increase, and on the Octave of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, after High Mass, a Lay Brother named Nicholas died.
In the same year, on the Octave of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Regulars of Haerlem, by the will of all, took upon them the rule of the cloister.
In the same year, during Advent, on the Octave of the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, and before Prime, died an aged man named Gerard Poelman.
Now it came to pass a few days before his death, and within the Octave of St. Martin the Bishop, that two Brothers came from Mount St. Agnes to Windesem to commune with the Prior.
In the same year, on the Octave of the Feast of St. Agnes the Virgin, died Christian, a Priest, who was eighty years old.
On the Tuesday and Saturday of the octave of Pentecost.
On the Wednesday of the octave of the Resurrection.
Two or three strains from his octave pipe are the signal for a general awaking of the birds, and one by one they join the song, until the whole air resounds with an harmonious medley of voices.
But from the fifth to the octave gives the interval of the fourth, therefore he permitted this combination also.
As his system of notation consisted of merely writing T for tone and S for semitone between the lines of his staff, it was only necessary to change the order of these letters for the octave at the beginning of each line.
Just as in mediaeval times each hexachord commenced with ut, so now everyoctave of our tonal system commences with do.
Let us assume then that the normal tone of the human voice in speaking is F or G [F: f g] for men, and for women the octave higher.
We will begin with the scale, and review what we know of the Greek modes in order to show how they were amalgamated into our present octave system of scales.
In speaking of impassioned speech I explained the relative values of the inflections of the voice, how the upward skip of the fourth, fifth, and octave indicates the intensity of the emotion causing the cry.
If we consider this new scale fromoctave to octave, commencing with the lowest note, that is to say from B to B, we find that it coincides exactly with the Mixolydian mode; therefore this was called the Mixolydian octave.
We remember why he chose the fourth, fifth, andoctave in preference to the third and sixth.
The instrument which the English manufacturer Broadwood presented to him in 1817 had a compass of six octaves, and was a whole octave wider in range than Mozart's pianoforte.
It sounds an octave lower than the music written for it, being what is called a transposing instrument of sixteen-foot tone.
There is a difference in the size of the drums to place at the command of the player the octave from F in the first space below the bass staff to F on the fourth line of the same staff.
Modern composers sometimes write for three flutes; but in the older writers, when a third flute is used, it is generally an octave flute, or piccolo flute (Plate III.
It sounds an octavehigher than is indicated by the notes in its part, and so is what is called a transposing instrument of four-foot tone.
In the last movement of his Eighth Symphony and the scherzo of his Ninth, he tunes them in octaves, his purpose in the latter case being to give the opening figure, an octave leap, of the scherzo melody to the drums solo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octave" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
