octave

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Your voice goes up an octave or you start to walk differently.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2025

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

The reason is that the more precise divisions of the octave into nineteen steps obeys mathematical ratios that occur in nature.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall