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eight notes pretending to be a circle, where the end is secretly the beginning
means The interval between one musical pitch and another with double its frequency, spanning eight notes of a scale and sounding so alike we give them the same name.
from From Latin 'octava,' meaning 'eighth,' the feminine of 'octavus' (eighth), built on 'octo' — eight — a number-word so old it runs through Greek 'okto,' Sanskrit 'asta,' and lands in English 'eight' too. The 'eighth' here counts the notes of a scale inclusively: do up to the next do, eight steps that arrive back where they began.
- frequency math
- each octave doubles the frequency exactly
- missing octave
- some cultures divide tones into 22 or more
- brain trick
- same note, octaves apart, sounds identical to us
- latin root
- named for eight, yet spans seven distinct notes
- piano range
- a grand spans roughly seven octaves
octave of easter — eight-day liturgical period in the catholic calendar following easter sunday
octave pedal — guitar effects pedal used by jimi hendrix and modern musicians to double notes at higher octaves