Octaviate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Octaviate is a verb meaning (music, rare) To octavate.
Meaning
(music, rare) To octavate.
Example Sentences
As the fundamentals of each fof begin to octaviate, they are desynchronized by individual envelopes, […]
In Marseille, I also generated some synthetic sounds with the MUSICV program. I chose a defective major-minor pitch scale, which does not exactly octaviate […]
He octaviates some fragments of the tune (including the first note) without even the excuse of avoiding difficult stopping. […] The transcriber adapts chords to his instrument, sometimes octaviates or simplifies the bass on technical grounds, but a peculiarity of this setting is the inclusion of some thorough-bass realization at places where the solo part plays in unison […]
Word Forms
- octaviates
- octaviating
- octaviated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include octavate, octave, double, quintate, quantize, octamerize.
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