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 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
One was high-pitched, the other an octave lower.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2023
But this idea, having two notes for one, prompted a further revolutionary thought: what if we had two notes together that weren’t an octave apart?
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Ms. O’Hara, best known for her crystalline singing in musical revivals, proves to have a similarly wide range of octaves when it comes to physical comedy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
For what it’s worth, though, they did find that the waves corresponded to the note of B-flat, about 57 octaves below the middle C note on a piano.
From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2025
“Callas could sing three octaves, but the film is mostly one note,” Times film critic Amy Nicholson wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
This excitation triggers the generation of harmonic electronic states that give rise to single photons -- similar to how musical harmonics produce notes across multiple octaves.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2024
Others prefer scientific pitch notation, which simply labels the octaves with numbers, starting with C1 for the lowest C on a full-sized keyboard.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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