By sheer industry she had extended the range of her voice to two octaves and a half--from A above the bass clef note to C flat, and even to D in alt.
Her voice, though not powerful, was of exquisite quality and wonderful extent, its compass being nearly two octaves and a half, and perfectly equable throughout.
Beats are unpleasing to the ear because of the unevenness of the sound, and it may be held with much plausibility that the reason why octaves are so pleasing is that we never hear their beats.
Footnote 142: Because all octavesin use in music offer too great differences of rates of vibration.
The chirp of a sparrow is about five octaves above the middle E of the piano, while the cry of the bat is a full octave above that.
This is founded probably on the fact that the ears of many of us, especially as we approach middle age, are unable to distinguish sounds more than four octaves above middle E.
We have already noticed that our alternating current dynamo, which produces 60 vibrations per second in the telephone receiver, causes it to give a tone very nearly like the C, which is two octaves below middle C upon the piano.
When it is connected with the receiver the disk, therefore, makes sixty vibrations per second, and produces a tone which has very nearly the pitch of C two octaves below the middle C upon the piano.
The tone which is produced by sixty vibrations per second is very nearly that of the C two octaves below middle C on the piano.
At this signal my assistant came in and took up the pitcher and placed my silk hat upon the table, when it instantly boomed forth a base note two octaves below middle C of the piano.
The tone was very nearly that of the key on the piano which is two octaves below middle C.
And farther on, in the part of the polonaise where the ostinato semiquaver figure in octavesfor the left hand begins, do we not hear the trampling of horses, the clatter of arms and spurs, and the sound of trumpets?
Although he made his pupils play octaves from the wrist, they must not thereby lose in fulness of tone.
Then as to technique, we find here octaves and large chords comparatively rare,[61] while scale passages are more restricted.
The broken octavesat the end of the exposition section, and the return by ellipsis to the principal theme, call to mind passages in Beethoven's Op.
From highest B to lowest F octaves and chords are hurled together, as Charlotte, seizing a mantle, rushes to the door.
More chilling than hail or snow are those sudden blasts of chords and octaves falling one on top of the other, down, down until they join and melt into the steady tremolo of the bass.
The accompaniment presents an unvaried monotone in the treble, while beneath it there is a pathetic melody half hidden by the upper octaves like romance suppressed by duty.
The superb theme of Hamlet's vow rings out in clear, untroubled octaves as the fair Ophelia comes forward with a book in her hand.
The prelude opens in the minor key with a group of octaves erect and solemn as pine trees.
It was a vision of Hell, bright with impossible octaves of light, splendid with raging infernos of blinding color, some of it beyond the visible range of human sight.
It was shrill, maniacal tumult, that ranged upward and upward into octaves beyond sound.
Well, I will set about it, and do my best to avoid octaves and broken chords; then there will be no ornamental passages at all, for you know I never write any others.
A subject once started, it was caught up as if it were a shuttlecock; now one of the players would seem to toss it up on high, or to keep it balanced in mid-octaves with delicate touch.
Finally, a whirlwind of octaves sets lads and lasses skipping and dancing in boisterous glee.
Such frequent examples of what I can only call consecutive octaves indicate a writer to whom invention does not come easily, and who is not likely to have recourse to it more than she can help.
I should explain to the non-musical writer that it is forbidden in music to have consecutive fifths or octaves between the same parts.
C-sharp minor, in which strong single notes and octaves occur, along with an insistent and very rapid sixteenth-note motion.
Here, after a series of heavy chords, a sixteenth-note motion enters in octaves for the left hand, and for the right hand a melody, which is at first soft and afterward built up.
This tendency to excitement continues in the second variation, where the melody is in the bass, in octaves broken into sixteenth notes.
First comes a march-like movement, in which certain very strong chords with occasional triplet octaves in the bass impart a singularly driving and forceful character to the music.
He repeated single parts again and again, sought increased effects, gave the second part of the minor in octaves and was inexhaustible in praise of Weber.
Liszt, doubtless, was the first who introduced interlockingoctaves instead of the chromatic scale at the close; Tausig followed his example.
It seemed to me simply impossible that any one could read at sight this thematic development, with octaves piled one on another for whole pages.
His octavesand chords baffle all critical experience and appraisement.
His octaves rage in chromatic and diatonic scales, in broken chords and arpeggios, up and down, hither and thither, like zigzag flashes of lightning.
The programme included 'an extempore fantasia on Erard's new patent grand pianoforte of seven octaves by Master Liszt, who will respectfully request a written thema from any person present.
The fingering of the clarinet is the most difficult of any instrument in the orchestra, for it differs in all four octaves of its compass.
First and second violins divided in two parts and progressing in octaves will deprive the melody of resonance, since the number of players is diminished by half, the consequences being specially noticeable in small orchestras.
Examples of strings in octaves doubled by wood-wind also in octaves are numerous, and do not require special description; they are used according to the rules already laid down.
C]], melody in 4 octaves (piccolo in the upper octaves).
The upper and lower parts of a passage can seldom be widely separated without the intermediate octaves being filled in, for this is contrary to the first principles of proper distribution of chords.
Sustained notes in double octaves are usually apportioned thus: [Music] The imperfect balance arising from the duplication of the middle note is compensated for by the mixture of timbres, which lends some unity to the chord.
The five remainingoctaves have three strings to a tone.
In the circumference of its seven octaves it embraces the whole range of an orchestra, and a man's ten fingers are enough to render the harmonies which in an orchestra are brought out only by the combination of hundreds of musicians.
For many octaves Mychowski fell as a stone from a star, and as he crashed into the very cellarage of hell he heard four snapping chords and found himself on the floor of his bedroom.
In the meantime, the messengers returning from Anjou, related the result of their mission to the empress and the princes in a second council, held at Devizes on the octaves of Pentecost.
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