All 3 Uses of
octave
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Bloom wound a skein round four forkfingers, stretched it, relaxed, and wound it round his troubled double, fourfold, in octave, gyved them fast.†
Chpt 11 *
- The octave.†
Chpt 15
- If I could only find out about octaves.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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