one-half octave

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• octave — Synonyms and related words: English horn, Octateuch, Spenserian stanza, antistrophe, bassoon, block flute, bombard, book, bourdon, burden, canto, cello, chorus, claribel, clarinet, clarion, concert flute, consecutive intervals, contraoctave,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Octave effect — boxes are a type of special effects unit which mix the input signal with a synthesised signal whose musical tone is an octave lower or higher than the original. The synthesised octave signal is derived from the original input signal by halving… …   Wikipedia

• octave — ► NOUN 1) Music a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the pitch of the other. 2) Music the interval between two such notes, or the notes themselves sounding together. 3) a group …   English terms dictionary

• half step — half ,step noun count AMERICAN TECHNICAL an amount by which one sound is higher or lower than another, equal to 1/12 of an OCTAVE. This difference occurs between any two notes that are next to each other on a piano …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• Octave — For other uses, see Octave (disambiguation). Perfect octave Inverse unison Name Other names Abbreviation P8 Size …   Wikipedia

• Octave (disambiguation) — An octave, in music, is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency. Octave may also refer to: Contents 1 Computing 2 Music 3 Literature 4 People …   Wikipedia

• Octave (poetry) — For other uses, see Octave (disambiguation). An octave is a verse form consisting of eight lines of iambic pentameter (in English) or of hendecasyllables (in Italian). The most common rhyme scheme for an octave is abba abba. An octave is the… …   Wikipedia

• Octave (liturgical) — For other uses, see Octave (disambiguation). Octave has two senses in Christian liturgical usage. In the first sense, it is the eighth day after a feast, reckoning inclusively, and so always falls on the same day of the week as the feast itself.… …   Wikipedia

• Octave Garnier — A police photo of Garnier who had served three prison terms by the age of 21. Octave Garnier (December 25, 1889 May 14, 1912) was a French anarchist and founding member of the infamous Bonnot Gang. Life Born in Fontainebleau, Seine et Marne on… …   Wikipedia

• half step —    a unit used in music to describe the ratio in frequency between notes. Equal to 1/12 octave, the half step measures the difference between adjacent notes in the standard 12 tone scale, as on a piano keyboard. Two notes differ in frequency by a …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• octave — n. 1 Mus. a 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. b this interval. c each of the two notes at the extremes of this interval. d these two …   Useful english dictionary