Octaves is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OCTAVES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• OCTAVE, a set of eight musical notes
• a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other.
• the interval between the two notes at the extremes of an octave.
• each of the two notes at the extremes of an octave.
• the two notes at the extremes of an octave sounding together.
• a group or stanza of eight lines; an octet.
• the seventh day after a Church festival.
• a period of eight days beginning with the day of a Church festival.
• the last of eight parrying positions.
• a wine cask holding an eighth of a pipe.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of musical interval

Words related to OCTAVES

octave11

Words that contain OCTAVES

suboctaves17 superoctaves19 contraoctaves20 subcontraoctaves25

How to use OCTAVES in a sentence

• They may be thought of as universal substance in three different octaves of vibration.
• Upon this clairvoyant vision in no wise depends, involving, as it does, other octaves of vibration.
• They extend for two octaves above the violet of the spectrum and are too short to affect the eye as light, although they affect photographic plates.
• He listened, judging their voices to range over nearly three octaves.
• It comprised two full octaves, the left hand playing the same notes as the right an octave lower.
• Examples are found of octaves employing short lines.
• We learn music on a fine piano of five octaves and a half.
• As early as 1500, then, four different instruments were in general use, the larger ones having a compass of about four octaves.
• Beyond that we cannot go, for a third more and we are back to the basic note, two octaves away.
• He sang in beautiful, tempered strains, along the middle octaves, never ranging high into the treble or deep into the base.
• Out of the ten octaves that make up the human instrument, I can compass perhaps two.
• She was fair to look upon and her voice was sweet and pure and in range two full octaves.
• When the prologue recurs, the phrases are in ascent, instead of descent of octaves.
• They may be considered as a vast gamut of undulations consisting of many octaves.
• These, however, were no more suited to short compositions than the stiff terzines and octaves to more complicated dramatic works.
• Now we can scarcely play on the violin or wind instrument a love melody which does not rise two or three octaves above the normal.
• The notes shown in white in the Tinguian scale are not sung at the pitch indicated, but occur in the song as octaves of these tones.
• Octaves should be practised with loose wrists and staccato touch.
• One can play these octaves slowly, using weight, or faster with crisp, staccato touch.
• I knew a young man in London who was evidently born with an aptitude for octaves.
• In chords and octaves I get all the power I need by grasping the keys with weight and pressure.
• It can be played in the same fashion, using four-voiced chords instead of octaves.
• The melody in octaves in right hand is beseeching, pleading, imploring.
• In that crowd were cats of seventeen octaves, and the average could not have been less than twelve.
• And tenths sound even better than octaves when two people play them.

Similar words containing OCTAVE without suffix s

octave11 suboctave16 suboctaves17 superoctave18 contraoctave19 superoctaves19 contraoctaves20 subcontraoctave24 subcontraoctaves25

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