Meaning of octaviate | Babel Free

Definitions

To octavate.

rare

Examples

“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 […]”

“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 […]”

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