| 单词 | short octave |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort octave short octave n. Music the lowest octave in some early organs, in which certain notes were omitted (see quot. 1786); also in keyboard instruments other than the organ. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > [noun] > short octave short octave1786 1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Short-Octaves, an appellation given to some of the lower octaves of an organ, because, from the omission of some of the intermediate notes, the extreme keys lie nearer to each other than those of the full octaves. 1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) i. 5 Short Octaves only occur in very old Organs. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 588/1 In the short octave two of the natural keys were omitted, and the succession stood thus:—CC (on the EE key), FF, G, A, B, C. 1961 A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages iv. 77 The earlier instruments [of the harpsichord family] very generally had a ‘short’ or ‘broken’ octave in the bass. 1980 Early Music 8 215/1 In my own field of keyboard instruments, the important questions used to be how the jack mechanism worked and how the short octave was tuned. < as lemmas |
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