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Certain octaves were considered as privileged days, on which work was forbidden.

Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave 2009

Now it should be noted that the question of the reduction of octaves is not uniquely post-conciliar; it should likewise be noted that the modern calendar still maintains octaves for the Nativity and Easter.

Two Reforms Associated with Pentecost: The Vigil and the Octave 2009

Each piano had 96 keys, the same number as a regular piano, but the span in octaves of each piano depended on the fractions of a tone it was designed for.

Did you know? Mexico's Nobel Prize nominee and music revolutionary 2008

Each piano had 96 keys, the same number as a regular piano, but the span in octaves of each piano depended on the fractions of a tone it was designed for.

Did you know? Mexico's Nobel Prize nominee and music revolutionary 2008

A few highlights of many from the orchestra: the cellos and horns together intoning the love theme; the English horn's version of the same against a downward stepping counter-melody, like vines dipping low from the balcony; the flute and English horn in octaves for a segment of the Queen Mab scherzo with the clarinet and triangle sporting later in the same movement; the infinite colorations of Juliet's funeral music mixing with the choir; the awakening clarinet of Juliet with the violas, cellos, and basses of Romeo in the vault scene, (in the David Garrett version of the play used by Berlioz).

Rodney Punt: A Glowing Romeo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010

A few highlights of many from the orchestra: the cellos and horns together intoning the love theme; the English horn's version of the same against a downward stepping counter-melody, like vines dipping low from the balcony; the flute and English horn in octaves for a segment of the Queen Mab scherzo with the clarinet and triangle sporting later in the same movement; the infinite colorations of Juliet's funeral music mixing with the choir; the awakening clarinet of Juliet with the violas, cellos, and basses of Romeo in the vault scene, (in the David Garrett version of the play used by Berlioz).

Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010

A few highlights of many from the orchestra: the cellos and horns together intoning the love theme; the English horn's version of the same against a downward stepping counter-melody, like vines dipping low from the balcony; the flute and English horn in octaves for a segment of the Queen Mab scherzo with the clarinet and triangle sporting later in the same movement; the infinite colorations of Juliet's funeral music mixing with the choir; the awakening clarinet of Juliet with the violas, cellos, and basses of Romeo in the vault scene, (in the David Garrett version of the play used by Berlioz).

Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010

Among the lesser works of Folengo are the "Zanitonella", which parodies both the Virgilian pastoral and the Petrarchian love-lyric; the "Orlandino" (1526), which gives in Italian octaves a burlesque account of the birth and youth of Roland; the curious "Caos Mel

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

Boehm flute is chromatic, from middle C to C, two octaves above the treble clef C, a range of three octaves, which is common to all concert flutes, and is not peculiar to the Boehm model.

Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

The tones are separated by octaves, meaning each successive frequency doubles and this creates the fascinating effect of a constantly descending tone, but really it goes absolutely no where, it stays at the same level.

Scientific American 2010