Meaning of 'octave' in Maltese is: ottava

octave: ottava

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ottava, tmien.

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Noun(1) a feast day and the seven days following it(2) a musical interval of eight tones(3) a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse

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(1) What is it that makes notes one octave apart fit together so well?(2) Meanwhile, strong octave Bs in the bass, along with the lengthy pedals necessary to sustain them, create the tremendous resonance this passage requires.(3) The second quatrain of Smith's sonnet alludes to Petrarch's octave .(4) These ratios produce the eight notes of an octave in the musical scale corresponding to the white keys on a piano.(5) In u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Tea,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb a fine Italian sonnet, she finishes the octave with u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510we learn nothing of ours is ours to keep.u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb(6) Rocky sung this quietly, and an octave lower than it was supposed to be.(7) They composed new liturgies in his honor and celebrated his death (unique for any local saint) with a full octave of worship.(8) On the watery desert from Pentecost to Christmas, they stay on the Isle of Ailbe from Christmas through the octave of Epiphany.(9) Psychotic disco drums and vivacious octave bass lines introduce us to the Liars new mania.(10) The beginning octave of this sonnet fits poorly with the sestet.(11) He sang an octave higher than his master, to better suit his tenor.(12) Lerner conquered the score's thunderous octaves and tone clusters brilliantly.(13) Only one, u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510I Love to Tell the Story,u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb has the melody in octaves in the bass.(14) One of the most difficult passages for the violin in the first movement is a melodic minor one-octave scale in fingered octaves .(15) Boccaccio's poem, a pastoral romance in rhymed octaves , has been aptly described as a hymn to nature.(16) In another, open octaves alternate with chordal homophony.