Theories put it at anywhere from three and a half octaves to eight octaves, and, like the Gyuto monks of Tibet, she can invoke more than one at a time.
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The randy man's smooth voice went up a few octaves.
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"Music, like octaves and half-notes, is ratios made audible," says Pesic.
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It can howl in the higher octaves, alongside Mr. Papazian's dirgelike violin.
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In an interview in 1972 she said she had "a thing for octaves".
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"Everyone wants to see who can play the fastest octaves," Ms. Lin said.
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His singing spans several octaves and styles, from new wave archness to gospel expressiveness.
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Intervals like fifths and octaves produce ringing overtones when their component notes are precisely spaced.
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He had brilliance when called for during jazz-tinged passages of Lisztian runs and octaves.
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Three times, the strings intervene with sustained D's in stacked octaves, as if issuing warnings.
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NASA also produced a version of the recording that lifted the sounds by two octaves.
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You don't have to lie, the man said, grinning, in a voice four octaves higher.
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His voice spanned octaves that haven't been deciphered, capable of eliciting tears from doves and demons.
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There are singers with broader ranges, more octaves, but none with the nuance that Tucker brings.
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The revisions extended the epic from 40 to 46 Books with the addition of 700 octaves.
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With a range of nearly three octaves, she relished big band, jazz, bebop, scat and swing.
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During some passages, he went for steely tone and uninhibited power, especially bursts of arm-blurring octaves.
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If you hit them quietly you can hear that they have overtones, octaves or chords of notes.
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Her chords had the bright payoff of internal octaves as well as the acrid carp of dissonance.
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At first, the movement's stern main theme is recalled by the piano — but mysteriously, quietly, in octaves.
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That's because the sound corresponds to a B-flat some 21995 octaves below middle-C on a piano.
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His chameleonic voice seems to span a full three octaves and is highly, sometimes uncomfortably, charged with emotion.
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His gesticulations sometimes devolved into jazz hands, and his voice could cover several octaves in a single sentence.
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It's then taken up a few octaves and repeated for the end result that went into the song.
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Recurring figures in triplets hover in the pianos, while a sighing, spare melody floats above in bare octaves.
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His presence is channeled through a voice two octaves deeper than anything I've heard come out of a human.
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Yet when the music turns crazed, with flinty chords and pummeling octaves, he could summon plenty of darkness and danger.
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"The range" is, at its most basic and obvious meaning, vocal range: the number of octaves a performer can sing.
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As Norma's rage intensifies, her vocal line bursts into a flurry of trills, turns and scales spanning nearly two octaves.
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Obama lowered her voice several octaves to impersonate the president lecturing his daughters on global warming at the dinner table.
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Her words rushed together, a thawing waterfall, moving intricately between octaves; still the only word he understood was his name.
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Ms. Norderval's performance left a strong impression: Her savage swoops between octaves are as remarkable as her feather-soft exhalations.
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Thursday's program stars Frauke Aulbert, a German vocalist with a range covering four octaves and vocal techniques from around the world.
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Researchers talk rhythm, octaves, and the magic of song and dance in this week's episode of Explained, now streaming on Netflix.
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Next, the researchers used "Alligator Crawl," by the American jazz pianist Fats Waller, to study their robot's ability to play octaves.
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" The audience's screams hit octaves that only dolphins could hear when the Backstreet Boys hit the stage and performed their hit, "Everybody.
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The installation's harmonic range, as Šarapovas tells Creators, covers 16 notes: four notes—C, D, F, and G—spread across four octaves.
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We all have our best registers, our natural octaves, and Smarsh's is the grounded, oral, anecdotal range of her hardscrabble Kansas kinfolk.
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Her range stretches toward four octaves, "backed by the power to infuse whatever she sings with deep soul," our music critic writes.
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Pink noise is closer to how the human ear and brain perceive sound, which is in terms of octaves, and not absolute frequency.
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You could argue that it was also unmade by it—long ago, she began losing octaves, until her entire soprano range was depleted.
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" Ms. Bartoli was cited for her "vocal range of three octaves and a unique ability to live a role with fullness of expression.
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Here is an unabashed showpiece in the grand manner, replete with thundering double octaves, frame-rattling two-hand chords, and keyboard-sweeping glissandos.
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A few slips aside, he tackled the virtuoso passages and daunting octaves with aplomb and rendered the lyrical sections with an introspective grace.
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Suspended between four limestone columns, the carillon's 57 bells cover two octaves and play in response to Mr. Weinstein's touch on a keyboard.
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For the tall, outer columns (and discounting hydrogen, which is a law unto itself) Newlands' octaves work perfectly for the lightest elements then known.
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That voice – superhuman, louder than a locomotive, able to leap tall octaves in a single bound – sounds hoarse and congested over the telephone today.
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He brought rich colorings and tenderness to the dreamy "Paysage" étude and conveyed the hellbent fervor of "Mazeppa," with its staggering bursts of octaves.
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The failed chorale assumes properly grandiose proportions, although it is undercut by an over-the-top cascade of double octaves, doubled goofily by glockenspiel.
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The singer's auto-tuned voice repeats the same phrase over and over — "oh my gosh" — notched down a few octaves beneath a normal tone.
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Soon the piano plays an arching theme in right-hand octaves, like some passing nod to those soaring-melody moments of Romantic piano concertos.
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With three potentiometer knobs and five momentary buttons which move up and down octaves, the controller instrument also fulfills the function of a midi keyboard.
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Is it the orchestration, with the harmonies clumped together in the middle of the range and bare octaves at the extremes of treble and bass?
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He raises his octaves for the first time on "Rockabye Baby" with Schoolboy Q, a song that brings out a playful spirit in his delivery.
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Like a de facto piano concerto, Hummel's septet bustles with rippling passagework, decorative scales, cascading arpeggios and, in the rustic finale, bursts of dancing octaves.
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Here is a sound recording of those pressure readings, sped up by a factor of 100, which raises the pitch by more than six octaves.
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Over the course of her three-decade career, the diva supreme has scaled the Billboard Hot 100 much as she scales octaves with her multiplatinum voice.
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Tie that hair up in a high pony, wing that eyeliner, and let your voice soar to octaves you didn't know you were capable of reaching.
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That could be seen at the Proms: the double octaves were executed with agility, her fingers appearing fleetingly on the keys yet leaving a lasting impression.
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The software is limiting, and the actual sound quality of that 1-bit beeper—which can only span around six octaves—is pretty poor, he said.
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At that moment, when as a listener you kind of lose it, he restarts some of these important themes in octaves, so you have some pointers.
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The one constant was her formidable voice — a range that stretches toward four octaves, backed by the power to infuse whatever she sings with deep soul.
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His voice that evening was also a few octaves lower, booming at the end of every word in the same way Obama's does in big speeches.
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Tracks like the somnambulant, psychadelic "Dream State" seemed to push that forward, a range of octaves working in tandem but never quite one, always perfectly detached.
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Because pink noise distributes energy according to how humans hear, in octaves, it's used to measure how the sound is perceived at different places within a venue.
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There's squelched songs about miserable come-downs, headrush romances, a whole lot of prickly guitar octaves, and a full-throated cover of a Get Up Kids song.
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You can count how many octaves there are in a singer's range, so when you say, "She doesn't have the range," it sounds like you've done math.
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Marshall's formal command lets him get away with any extreme of sweetness or direness, exercising a painterly voice that spans octaves, from soprano trills to guttural roars.
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The Atlanta producer, responsible for helping forge the sounds of Xscape, Usher, and Mariah Carey took to social media to express his shock, screaming "ahhhh" at staggering octaves.
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She always made her shortcomings as a functional member of society a touchstone, deepening her voice by a couple of octaves in her impression of the adult world.
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The piano part, mostly shifting chords with active inner voices, cushions the searching violin but loses patience and starts prodding the music with leaping octaves and gnarly bursts.
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Erika Grimaldi, soprano, and Daniela Barcellona, mezzo-soprano, were strong and impressive individually but almost more so together, their voices matching uncannily in unisons, octaves and close harmony.
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Then, for a harrowing scene involving a schoolyard fight, he slowed the music drastically, until it was almost unrecognizable — more than two octaves lower than the original recording.
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Pink noise is used instead of white noise because it's closer to how the human ear and brain perceive sound, which is in terms of octaves, not absolute frequency.
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It takes 120 days for waves to propagate east to west in the basin, yielding an A-flat tone that's roughly 30 octaves below the bottom of a piano.
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Not only is her tone about five octaves more relaxed, but so is her approach to beauty heading into Bachelor In Paradise, the franchise's more dramatic, sweatier spin-off.
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Not only did Mr. Lee effortlessly dispatch streams of passagework, spiraling runs, leaping chords and bursts of octaves, he also played with nuance, delicacy and rich variety of touch.
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The aria covers well over two octaves, often descending to unusual repeated low acuti, and requires near-superhuman agility to negotiate an astonishing run of 136 consecutive 16th notes!
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During the song, he manipulates his voice into different octaves, shifting registers in a way that seems to convey the pain of watching his parents drift apart as a child.
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The Transcendental Études contain some of the most taxing piano writing ever put on paper: jagged chords strewn all over the keyboard, everywhere-leaping arpeggiated figures, pages of double octaves.
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But I'm reminded of it only when I hear a recording of myself while playing back an interview — or when friends do impressions of me, lowering their voices several octaves.
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The French and German makers turned the Italian organ's pedal keys into a proper pedalboard with several octaves; northern European organists learned to use their feet as actively as their hands.
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Mr. Blechacz dispatched the brawny passages of octaves, chords and dizzying runs in the first movement, and then drew out the wistfulness of the Adagio, with its unquiet currents lurking below.
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The B flat note, 217 octaves below middle C, appeared as sound waves that emanated from explosive events at the edge of a supermassive black hole in the galaxy NGC 2100.
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I was learning octaves and stuff, so there is a Southern gospel kind of feel with some of the music we do, and the soul is there because of the church background.
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Its dynamic shift, from spritely staccato playing in the intro to ringing bass fifths and high octaves in the choruses, perfectly mirrors that of the original recording, even without Uzi's impassioned cries.
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When Aretha Franklin roared, in several octaves no less — listen to the "Ahhhhhh-hhhhhh!" refrain from "Rock Steady" — I imagined it sprang from a place many black women know all too well.
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By default, the Jamboxx is set to play 12 notes on a C major chromatic scale, but this can be changed, and a modulation wheel on the side allows for moving across octaves.
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Think the late great, Freddie Mercury of Queen, or Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose, although composer-singer Tim Storms holds the Guinness World Record for the largest vocal range: a whopping 10 octaves.
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Listen to the moment in the first movement when she draws out the lyrical thread during a stretch of rustling passagework and then dispatches a burst of double octaves with crispness and ease.
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In the Prokofiev, she dispatched the tangles of passagework, pummeling chords and arm-blurring bursts of octaves with excitingly effortless virtuosity, while also highlighting the music's moments of lyrical richness and poetic musing.
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Unlike previous iterations of the Taurus, this is the first Taurus-based instrument from Moog that has a wide frequency range capable of going up into higher octaves (reaching notes as high as D8).
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The Barton Bellas show off their vocal ranges in Pitch Perfect (2012)Most people have a modest two-octave vocal range when they sing, but some rare talents can manage five octaves or more.
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But she stuck to the lower range for much of the song, choosing to showcase the power of her voice rather than walking up, to the upper octaves of her infamously impressive vocal range.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa — Squaring off just blocks from each other as they kicked off the final weekend before the Iowa caucuses, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton made their final pitches in their own distinct octaves.
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You might have heard about it via the South Park episode that devoted its entire 22 minutes to Cartman's discovery of a frequency "92 octaves below the lowest E flat" that causes instant diarrhoea.
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On Monday night's episode of the Late Show, Stephen Colbert donned a varsity-style USA jacket, lowered his voice about three octaves, and told the audience he was a skeleton wrapped in angry meat.
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It sneaks up on you: At first you think those carols coming from the store speakers are from your childhood — but why are they all being sung over four octaves by one distinctive voice?
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On "Winds," Mr. Moran maintains a sense of drifting momentum, octaves chiming in his right hand while the drummer Nasheet Waits and the bassist Tarus Mateen pull away from the beat, upward and outward.
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Kelsey, Natasha, and Lexi, all say that they think Alayah is, at the very least, different when she's on camera, with Lexi adding that Alayah raises her speaking voice several octaves when being filmed.
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Especially when, describing how she plunged a knife into Scarpia's heart, she rises to a chilling high C, then drops steadily two octaves to a curdling low C. The calm before the final horror.
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"This is not my voice, but for him I will call for him in a voice he can hear," writes the pup's owner, who explores new octaves during a romp through the freshly fallen snow.
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The voice Ms. Collins revealed at that concert, and on "Lodestar," falls several octaves below the soaring one that made her famous on traditional touchstones like "The Power of the True Love Knot" in 1968.
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The piano writing is almost frenetically brilliant; Mr. Andsnes dispatched it with such effortless command and penetrating clarity that every burst of arm-blurring octaves, every tangled patch of passagework, seemed both meaningful and fantastical.
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With all my flaws as a singer — wrong notes, wavering in the higher octaves as I age, I know that when I am singing at my best I make beauty and feel powerful physical pleasure.
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Carey knows her vocal range isn't what it was in her '90s heyday and selects arrangements and even tracks that compliment what she can do, with more whispering in her higher octaves than belting these days.
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In the first two minutes of the film—between a live performance of "Jealousy," a brief interview, and a conversation with his manager about health supplements—Brown uses four different octaves to get his point across.
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But I was in the elevator of this hotel and for some reason I was so rattled that I walked out on the wrong floor, and John was walking in and my voice raised like four octaves.
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While managing to scale the octaves—and match the emotional nuance—of the original, Boe somehow found energy to leap about, pump his fists, and stage a few literal mic-drops—likely a first at the MET.
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Watching Rockmore play the theremin is watching someone make music out of thin air: Rockmore's initial prowess with the instrument pushed her to work with Termen to expand the instrument's capabilities from only three octaves to five.
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A few examples: When a string tuned to the note C "is divided into one quarter of its length, we get an F note," he writes, when in fact we would get a C, two octaves up.
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The indie crowd resented her poaching on their turf, while Ms. Fleming's opera fans complained that, singing more huskily and about two octaves lower than usual, she sounded so little like herself that they couldn't recognize her.
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We don't use the precise 2432:4403 intervals between fifths that Pythagoras suggested because, despite the theoretical purity of the math on a small scale, it can lead to garish dissonance when you extend it over seven octaves.
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There is a terrific moment of chaos when the guests first try to leave the drawing room; the ondes martenot (an early electronic instrument with a theremin-like quality) slides down several octaves with the entire string section.
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"Firecracker," a single from Hosono's early days later rerecorded for their debut, finds the band blending Japanese traditionalism with the same sort of parallel fourths, fifths, and octaves that Hollywood had used to convey "orientalism" in shorthand for decades.
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ET, TNT ABOUT THE THUNDER: Westbrook's testy nature went up several octaves after Game 218, when a reporter asked center Steven Adams about the fact that Oklahoma City was outscored by 23 points during the nine minutes Westbrook was rested.
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By the end of the third day, my voice had dropped two octaves and I was reduced to growling in a Lauren Bacall voice over my microphone to lure folks over, with something akin to a phone sex operator voice.
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Repeating the instruction enough times like this caused the human ear to hear not discrete clicks but a steady note, in fact the note C6, two octaves above middle C. He then found that different patterns of "hoots" created different notes.
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He began with a charming, informative spoken introduction to the clarinet d'amour, the period instrument he had chosen for the performance, which has an extended range (four octaves) and a bell-like piece at the end that mutes the sound in a beautifully mellow way.
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Transformed into sound, the Hanford signal was a long 22.6-second chirp, that ended in a sudden whoop to 5003 cycles per second, two octaves above middle C. Such a high frequency indicated that whatever was zooming around was lighter than a black hole.
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On Saturday, the 28-year-old Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov gave a stunning performance of the sonata at the 92nd Street Y. With prodigious technique and rhapsodic flair, Mr. Abduraimov dispatched the work's challenges, including burst upon burst of arm-blurring octaves, with eerie command.
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Instead of trying to reproduce the deepest bass notes with micro-speakers that simply can't operate at such frequencies, Dirac has designed a system that plays "a combination of artificially generated overtones that are several octaves higher," which fools the human mind into perceiving deep bass.
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Yet I especially liked the way he tore into vehement episodes: He tossed off bursts of double octaves with steely fortissimo sound, and brought earthy rawness to the driving left-hand chords and crunchy theme that opens the finale, which sounded like a dark Norwegian dance.
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It opens quietly, with a haze of high strings and a despairing theme delivered by a flugelhorn — Mr. Rouse was a fan of using at least one unusual instrument per work — that lands, in Mahlerian fashion, on a note doubled by a harp in lower octaves.
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In the piece's opening minutes, the violin (here the great Anne-Sophie Mutter) and cello (Maximilian Hornung) share a continuous run of 16th notes passed back and forth seamlessly, followed by another run: an ascent in which they play the same notes, but in different octaves.
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Additionally, it comes with a powerful arpeggiator that has a range of four octaves, two digital effect units (modulation and delay / reverb), two envelope generators for adjusting the dynamics of the sound, one filter, and one LFO (used to modulate a sound for creating a rhythmic pulse or sweep).
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In William H. Gass's "Middle C," a job at a record store (the High Note) in rural Ohio gives a young, mediocre piano student named Joey Skizzen an education that grows "by octaves," and launches this "snob in motion" on a path to becoming a professor of music.
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The folksy lil number features Diesel hammering away about sixteen octaves lower than Selena (it sounds a bit like a father and daughter doing karaoke I'm just putting it out there) against a track that I would describe as the aural equivalent of putting EDM and folk in a blender.
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The 11-inch keyboard — which can be linked with one or two more of the same to add more octaves — comes with an iPad app that contains hundreds of pieces, and the two are now selling for $249 alongside a new Kickstarter to help drum up interest and offer early-bird discounts.
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Among these are the rowdy opener, "Hot Mess Disaster Boy" (with music by Adam Cochran); "The Future of Poetry Is Female" (based on an interview with the poet Ariana Reines), written and performed by Ms. Hart; and Joseph Keckler's "City," inspired by Wojnarowicz's Rimbaud-mask photographs, sung in a larynx-defying range of octaves by Mr. Keckler.
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Until then, she'd only ever done one tour, and that was her 1979 Tour Of Life, where she changed her costume 17 times, belted out the octaves to 24 different songs, emerged from a giant animatronic egg like a human-shaped chicken, and pretty much invented the headset stage microphone so she could do all of this while keeping both arms free.
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Ms. Peters, who would sing with the Met 515 times over 35 vigorous years, was internationally renowned for her high, silvery voice (in private, she could hit a high A, two and a half octaves above middle C); her clarion diction in a flurry of languages; her attractive stage presence; and, by virtue of the fact that she and television came to prominence at about the same time, her wide popular appeal.
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