Christopher Young

When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

American Composer

Synyster Gates

I don't like using fourths and fifths. Instead, I'll come up with a harmony line made up of major and minor thirds above the melody, then I'll drop it down an octave so that the melody is on top and the harmony line is major and minor sixths below it.

American Musician

Rosemarie DeWitt

I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue.

American Actress

Eddie Van Halen

On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

Dutch Musician

Emily Blunt

I'm Sudafed-ed up, but it's alright because I'm having to do this rather sultry scene, so maybe it's OK that my voice is three octaves lower.

British Actress

Igor Stravinsky

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Russian Composer

Mariah Carey

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

Musician

Aaron Neville

That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.

Jackie Coogan

Fester never talked in the 'Addams Family' cartoons. So I raised my voice an octave and I gave him a beetling look.

Julie Andrews

I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.

English Actress

An octave spans eight notes in a standard musical scale.

Music Range

Shifting an octave changes a note's pitch, but maintains its position in the scale.

Pitch Shift

Octaves are fundamental in music across different cultures, recognized by listeners universally.

Cultural Recognition

An octave can set the theme in a sonnet before a sestet resolves it.

Poetic Structure

Look for stanza breaks to identify octaves in poetry, often indicated by a space.

Stanza Breaks

Each octave in acoustics represents a frequency doubling, which is a logarithmic scale.

Frequency Doubling

In acoustics, octaves have equal distance on a logarithmic frequency scale but differ in pitch.

Equal Intervals

Catholic octaves are not just a day but a full week plus one day of celebration.

Religious Period

An octave allows significant religious feasts to be celebrated over eight days.

Feast Day Extension

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What does it take to...

 When we hear one note played with another that has exactly twice its frequency, its first overtone, they sound so harmonious that we assign them the same letter, and define the difference between them as an octave. The rest of the scale is squeezed into that octave

The physics of playing...

 it would only be one octave that the naked eye could see, which is right in the middle? And aren't we grateful for our brains, that can take this electrical impulse that comes from light energy to create images in order for us to explore our world?

Louie Schwartzberg:...

 When we play them together, it sounds like this. This is an octave, right? We can do this game. We can play a sound, play the same A. We can multiply it by three-halves. This is what we call a perfect fifth. They sound really nice together.

Math is the hidden...

 Incidentally, we see just one octave. Your ears are always on -- you have no ear lids. They work even when you sleep. The smallest sound you can perceive moves your eardrum just four atomic diameters. The loudest sound you can hear

Julian Treasure: Shh!...

 He checks you out, he grabs your adjusting straps and he tightens everything so that your chest is crushed, your shoulders are crushed down, and, of course, he's tightened so your voice goes up a couple octaves as well.

Stanley McChrystal:...

 and an overhead mic outside the swimming pool. So here's what the underwater mic sounds like. Adding the overhead mic, it sounded a bit like So now they took the sound and pitched it one octave down,

Everything you hear on...

 beyond the range of human hearing a dog can hear sounds of such high frequency that to produce them a piano would require an extra four octaves but dogs don't actually make high pitched

Have You Ever Seen a Dog...

 Okay, now if we consider that in a cochlear implant patient pitch perception could be off as much as two octaves,

Charles Limb: Building...

 She discovers a note she likes, finds the octave.

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