Both Uses of
octave
in
The Mill on the Floss
- It was the book she was accustomed to lay open before her on special occasions,—on wet Sunday mornings, or when she heard of a death in the family, or when, as in this case, her quarrel with Mr. Glegg had been set an octave higher than usual.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- The mere concord of octaves was a delight to Maggie, and she would often take up a book of studies rather than any melody, that she might taste more keenly by abstraction the more primitive sensation of intervals.†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
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(octave as in: has a four-octave range) an interval of tones with the pitch at the high end being twice that at the low end -- 8 notes on the familiar diatonic scale