octave

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It became a defining song for the genre, marrying Thomas's gospel-trained, four octave vocals to a pulsing electronic beat.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2024

In the chorus, she jumps the octave to scream the song’s title — it’s haunting and unforgiving.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2024

In the musical analogy, important musical intervals based on ratios of frequencies are the fourth, 4:3, the fifth, 3:2, and the octave, 2:1.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2024

Brown noise contains sounds from every octave on the sound spectrum; however, the “power behind frequencies decreases with each octave.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2024

Out of the chaos and confusion, the evenly spaced octave was born and we have lived with that huge shift in Western music ever since.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall