noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
low
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You hear muted music, the lower octaves from an organ.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A robin's song spans less than an octave .
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Its high register gives brilliance and point when doubling at the octave phrases allotted to other wind instruments or to the violins.
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Ottovina, octave , eight: translation was something like love.
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Rather, the carrier frequency swoops up or down about an octave .
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The bassoons are at their most powerful in their bottom octave or so.
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Throughout its range of 2 octaves it is capable of infinitely varied coloration and texture, from silky velvet to deliberate ugliness.
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What's more, Bill had a voice that was nearly an octave higher than Ben's.