单词 | super-octave |
释义 | super-octaven. Music. 1. An organ stop sounding a note two octaves higher than the ordinary pitch; the octave two octaves above a given note; = fifteenth n. 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > diapason tone stops > principal principal1613 small principal1613 octave1716 octave stop1730 subprincipal1825 super-octave1884 1776 J. Hawkins Gen. Hist. Music I. i. iv. 60 Divide E B into eight parts, of which make E M equal to one, so as M B may be superoctave of E B. 1826 Harmonicon Aug. 158/2 (table) Super-octave. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 831/2 The 2 [= 2-foot] fifteenth, or superoctave, of the great organ. 1943 Waterloo (Iowa) Sunday Courier 13 June 12/1 There are some pipes which are hardly bigger than a baby's little finger. Those..super octaves..sound like a dog whistle. 1997 F. A. D'Accone Civic Muse 21 There were to be six stops, the tenor,..an octave, a quintadecima (superoctave), [etc.]. 2. In full superoctave coupler. A device in an organ or similar instrument which enables a note one octave higher than that being played to sound at the same time. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > other parts super-octave1853 sub-octave1855 passage-board1880 1853 Musical World 17 Sept. 594/2 The ‘Swell to Great Sub. Octave’..without its attendant Super-octave coupler, can be but unsatisfactory and lop-sided in effect. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 420/1 Superoctave, a coupler pulling down keys one octave above those struck. 1881 Belfast News-let. 3 Jan. 3/4 The sub and super-octave couplers on the swell organ. 1919 E. E. Truette Organ Registration v. 62 The term ‘Super-Octave Coupler’ in old organs caused some confusion, on account of the presence of a stop named ‘Super-Octave’. 2003 S. K. Brockschmidt Harmonium Handbk. ii. 35 A coupler effectively connects one key with its counterpart either an octave above (a super-octave coupler) or an octave below (a sub-octave coupler). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1776 |
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