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contraoctave
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noun
Music
.
the octave between the second and third C's below middle C.
Origin:
1890–95;
contra-
2
+
octave
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rest equal in time value to an eighth note
passage at the end of a composition used to bring it to a satisfactory close
note equivalent to one fourth of a whole note
chord of three tones, one consisting of a given tone with its major or minor third augmented
tone on the fifth degree from another tone
note having one sixteenth of the time value of a whole note
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