| 单词 | octave |
| 例句 | Dimple’s voice was two octaves higher than usual when she finished, so Rishi knew whatever she said must be a big deal. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In a pentatonic scale, only five of the possible pitches within an octave are used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The finbacks, for example, emit extremely loud sounds at a frequency of twenty Hertz, down near the lowest octave on the piano keyboard. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Transpose parts up a major sixth for alto sax, and up an octave plus a major sixth for bari sax. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For example, if two notes are an octave apart, there will be exactly two waves of one note for every one wave of the other note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She held her breath as its octaves rose, the tune climbing higher and higher until it reached an impossible crescendo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Fadi,” said Noor, her voice an octave lower, “I know you’re an excellent photographer. You know all the tricks Dad taught you, but don’t be too disappointed if you don’t win.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z As we saw when we first encountered the octave, if your column of air is exactly half the length of where you started, you will get a note that is the same pitch, only higher. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Because of this, many discussions of music theory don't bother naming octaves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Hilly raises her voice about three octaves higher when she talks to colored people. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Henry looks like his entire life might be flashing before his eyes, and he says, an octave too high, “Right, well, I’ll just—nip to the loo!” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The word "octave" comes from a Latin root meaning "eight." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Figure 4.4: Each note is considered to be in the same octave as the C below it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Notes one octave apart are given the same name. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Mr. Beiderman,” Mama continued, her voice going up an octave, “you realize that the apartment is not going to look its best if you show it now, right?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Mrs. Walton starts singing the lyrics, and her voice blends in perfectly with the male lead singer, only hers is an octave above. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z For example, the classical music of India recognizes twenty-two different possible pitches within an octave; each raga uses five, six, or seven of these possible pitches. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Hi. Excuse me,” Ben says, his voice an octave higher than normal. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Father,” said Noor, her voice dropping an octave, “I have to tell you something. Something I’ve been meaning to tell you...but not in front of Mother.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag- beetle. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice sounded an octave higher than usual. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Then, horror of horrors, her voice drops two octaves. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Every octave has the same frequency ratio; the higher note will have 2 times the frequency of the lower note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Like octaves, the other intervals are also produced by the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then rising an octave like “The Star-Spangled Banner”: “God stirred up the holy spirit of a man named Daniel!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Hila’s voice rose an octave as she moved to stand by Ekon, ankle bells jingling with each step. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Her voice goes up an octave, and she looks like she’s about to cry again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I ask, my voice jumping half an octave. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z A note that is an octave higher or lower than a note named "C natural" will also be named "C natural." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z If it bothers you that the ratios in equal temperament are roots, remember the pure octaves and fifths of the harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The note Doomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Except for the unison and the octave, none of the ratios for equal temperament are exactly the same as for the pure interval. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It dropped more than an octave to produce a sound more like a braying donkey than a boy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of these modes can easily be found by playing its one octave range, or ambitus, on the "white key" notes on a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But this idea, having two notes for one, prompted a further revolutionary thought: what if we had two notes together that weren’t an octave apart? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The next octave takes you up 2 times higher than that, or 8 times the frequency of the first note, and so on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z My voice rose an octave, my heart pounding against my ribs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The main weakness of the Pythagorean system is that a series of pure perfect fifths will never take you to a note that is a pure octave above the note you started on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And there are some traditions in Africa that use six or eight notes within an octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Which harmonic will be one octave higher than the fourth harmonic? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Some, like pentatonic and octatonic scales, have fewer or more notes per octave, but many have seven tones, just as a major scale does. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The pattern repeats at the eighth tone of a scale, the octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The reason is that the more precise divisions of the octave into nineteen steps obeys mathematical ratios that occur in nature. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The con’s voice is scratchy and an octave too high, like a girl’s almost. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes refilled the mosaic-lined fountain with sweet water and built an aviary in the garden, stocking it with toucans and cockatoos, parrots, a macaw, and canaries that sang in high octaves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Check for yourself the other notes in the series that are an octave apart. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z This will take you to the tonic one octave higher than where you began, and includes all the notes in the key in that octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Someone’s dead,” said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Predict the next four sets of octaves in a harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Celia played the piano once and still exercises her hands, unconsciously stretching them two notes beyond an octave. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My voice rises an octave with each word, each piece of the night terror flooding back to life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Figure 6.6: Remember that, no matter what note you start on, the note one octave higher has 2 times its frequency. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When he gently placed his finger in the middle of the string and plucked again, he got another nice, clear note, this time one octave above the fundamental. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z You may use more than one octave of each scale, but use only one scale for each piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z With thirty- one notes per octave, it was ludicrously difficult to play and did not catch on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I do the same thing one octave higher. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Only seven letter names are used to name notes: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. The eighth note would, of course, be the next A, beginning the next octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In equal temperament, the only pure interval is the octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Where the ‘pitch ratio’ of two identical pitches is 1:1 and that of an octave 2:1, the ratio of a perfect fifth is 3:2 and a perfect fourth is 4:3. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He and Asher smirk at each other, and the shouts from the audience go up an octave. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The negative aspect is that it means that all intervals except for octaves are slightly out of tune with regard to the actual harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A perfect octave is often simply called an octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z So are any other notes in other octaves that have the same name as 1, 3, or 5. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Give the correct octave name for each note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Any scale that uses only five notes within one octave is a pentatonic scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Why is a cent the hundredth root of a semitone, and why is a semitone the twelfth root of an octave? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Figure 3 shows the names of the octaves most commonly used in music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Any note that is twice the frequency of another note is one octave higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He drove without speaking through a thundershower that crinkled the windshield and raised the hum of his tires an octave. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles took a swallow of his drink and ran up another octave, trilling nonsensically on the keys with his right hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The simple intervals are one octave or smaller. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Out of the chaos and confusion, the evenly spaced octave was born and we have lived with that huge shift in Western music ever since. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He has long, lean piano fingers like what Amanda wishes she had so she could stretch her hand across one full octave. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z They are just singing them one octave higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z While each instrument is limited in range to fewer than two octaves, all together, from bass bars to soprano glockenspiel, the ensemble covers six octaves, creating an entire orchestra! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Others prefer scientific pitch notation, which simply labels the octaves with numbers, starting with C1 for the lowest C on a full-sized keyboard. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z What is the pattern that predicts which notes of a harmonic series will be one octave apart? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Well,” he said, dropping his voice an octave or two so he sounded all serious, “like a lot of people, you’re afraid of being in a vehicle when someone’s driving with their eyes shut.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Notes with this small-number ratio of 2:1 are so closely related that we give them the same name, and most tuning systems are based on this octave relationship. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A mode can be found by playing all the "white key" notes on a piano for one octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Rounds are usually pretty short and always start at the same note, or the octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Notes that are one octave apart are so closely related to each other that musicians give them the same name. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Much more common is the use of a treble clef that is meant to be read one octave below the written pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But her fingers are long and supple—she has no problem with pieces that are written for two octaves, no problem at all. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z A very small "8" at the bottom of the treble clef symbol means that the notes should sound one octave lower than they are written. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Oct is the Latin root for eight. So the space between low D and high D is one octave. Can you all show me and sing low D to high D?” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The octave was named by musicians who were more interested in how octaves are divided into scales, than in how their frequencies are related. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Two notes that are exactly the same pitch, for example, have a frequency ratio of 1:1, and octaves, as we have already seen, are 2:1. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z So in fourteenth-century polyphony, the perfect fifth, the perfect fourth and the octave comprised the vast majority of note combinations, or chords, on offer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Yes, it’s fine,” Dimple said, aware that her voice was two octaves too high. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z My feet shuffled and my voice lowered a few octaves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Audrey’s voice went up a whole octave like it always did when she got upset. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z When I speak, my voice seems to have dropped an octave. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Tenor sax parts are written an octave plus one step higher. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then his voice lowered an octave, and he spoke sharply to his wife. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Cara had hold of Joey’s arm, squeezing it, and her voice had gone up an octave. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Figure 4.2: When two notes are one octave apart, one has a frequency exactly two times higher than the other — it has twice as many waves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z NOTE: In some woodwinds, such as the clarinet , the upper "octave" may actually be the third harmonic rather than the second, which complicates the fingering patterns of these instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “I said let’s play ball,” Bull growled in a lower, more frightening octave. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The twelve-note octave as we know it became a firm fixture of Western music after the publication in 1722 of J. S. Bach’s forty-eight preludes and fugues for the 'Well-Tempered Keyboard’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Later, octave came to mean a choice of twelve notes, not eight, and we got saddled with the wrong descriptor for ever, but I’ll explain that development when it arrives. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The octave below contra can be labelled CCC or Co; higher octaves can be labelled with higher numbers or more lines. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But there are also two formal systems for naming the notes in a particular octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Most woodwinds can get two different octaves with essentially the same fingering; the lower octave is the fundamental of the column of air inside the instrument at that fingering. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Slightly unwisely, for this was an idea whose time had not quite yet come, Newlands called it the Law of Octaves and likened the arrangement to the octaves on a piano keyboard. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Now, who’s this?” he inquired, his voice rising an octave or so. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Except that her voice was an octave higher, it might have been Dad, sitting there in his own chair. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The notes in different octaves are so closely related that when musicians talk about a note, a "G" for example, it often doesn't matter which G they are talking about. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Other musical traditions — traditional Chinese music for example — have divided the octave differently and so they use different scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Two notes that are exactly one octave apart sound good together because their frequencies are related in such a simple way. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Write one octave of notes in this mode. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z That was something at least, and Mace was a big man, strong across the shoulders, and with hands that could have spanned one and a half octaves of the pub piano he said he played. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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. Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Uryupin’s cavalier treatment of this string piece included some altered notes, passages missing entirely, awkward octave displacements in the middle of a run, and just a general misalignment with the character of the piece. Clarinet’s limitations prove challenging for Ukrainian soloist 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The week before rehearsals started, with her “entire support system slashed in half” by surgery, Lewek was still able to sing only up to a high G, a full octave below what Mozart’s music required. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Mrs Chin lay face down on the piano, her forehead spanning an octave. David Nicholls Every Good Boy 2011-07-22T22:01:00Z His presence is channeled through a voice two octaves deeper than anything I’ve heard come out of a human. On a Canoe Trip Along the U.S.-Canada Border, Solitude and Shooting Stars 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z At each concert, Stepanyuk brings the spirit of Ukraine, loud and clear and several octaves high as a lyric coloratura soprano, a kind of voice characterized by extreme agility and flexibility. Ukrainian opera singer in Japan prays for peace in melody 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Bridgewater’s singing has only a passing resemblance to Holiday’s scratchy feline sound made within a narrow range of little more than an octave. Music Review | Dee Dee Bridgewater: A Woman and Her Band Commune With a Legend 2010-02-19T06:19:00Z It happens on “My Queen Is Ada Eastman,” the opening track: Mr. Hutchings finishes the song’s melody and Mr. Cross hops up an octave to join him in unison for a brief coda. With Sons of Kemet, Shabaka Hutchings Brings London Jazz Into the Spotlight 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The album’s sounds also include instruments invented by the composer Harry Partch — among them chromelodeon and zoomoozophone — that divide an octave into 43 steps, which are used to bend the harmonic ambience of “Insomniac’s Lullaby.” Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Baughman, the company’s producing artistic director, actually croons a lot of the brooding melodies as Todd, and he leaps octaves effectively during the wrathful “Epiphany.” Sondheim goes ‘crunch’ in prog-metal ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z That big, roaring octave section toward the beginning is actually thematic and musical. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z But later works like “I’ll Let You Go,” “Memorial” and “The Chrysanthemum Palace” demonstrated that he also had a lot more octaves as a writer, that he could also write with tenderness and earnest emotion. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z Designed for artists who want to reach for that metaphorical extra octave and beyond, the space has been outfitted with cutting-edge digital acoustic and visual technology. At Seattle Symphony’s new Octave 9, a 24-hour music marathon promises Cloud 9 for new music lovers 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Most of her verse is dedicated to insulting unnamed antagonists, one of her favored modes, doing so while stretching out syllables, jumping up an octave, or taking “two bars off just to laugh.” The Playlist: Lana Del Rey Finds Love in a Hopeless Place 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z And then without skipping a beat, she goes up an octave with: “Oh my God … so Josh was dead when we first went to India, right?” My father had a lifelong ticket to fly anywhere. Then they took it away 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z The other voice — pitched about half an octave higher, blunt, reedy, very winning — pops up in the essays. In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z On the title track, Smith taps the vibraphone in a pattern of resonant octaves, and the rest of the quartet grows restless behind him. My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In “Flood,” his voice remained marvelously full across the octave drops, which he turned into generous, scooping movements. Music Review: Gerald Finley and Julius Drake in the ‘Winterreise’ Cycle 2014-02-14T23:02:37Z The revisions extended the epic from 40 to 46 Books with the addition of 700 octaves. Fantasy, Fights and Love: 500 Years of ‘Orlando Furioso’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Carrillo designed a piano with its 88 keys covering a single octave, and he also invented the necessary notation to go along with this. Liminar makes Mexico's Carrillo look like the next great rediscovery 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Intervals like fifths and octaves produce ringing overtones when their component notes are precisely spaced. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The hole eliminates two octaves of strings, reducing the center portion of the keyboard to percussive thumps. Art Review: I Just Popped Out to Play Beethoven 2010-12-09T23:57:00Z The feel of both tunes was urgent, almost hurried, and Mr. Tyner was characteristically effulgent, unfurling octaves and tremolos with his right hand and wielding his left like a wrecking ball. Music Review: The Accomplished Joined by the Young and Promising 2011-02-16T22:46:42Z His chameleonic voice seems to span a full three octaves and is highly, sometimes uncomfortably, charged with emotion. Review: Dez Mona’s ‘Sága,’ Acoustic Time Travel in a Song Cycle About Roots 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z He returned for a second break that was even better than the first – bouncing off Harris's prodding chordwork, steering phrases through vaulting octave leaps, and winding up on catlike valve-warped yelps. London jazz festival: Ambrose Akinmusire/Robert Glasper – review 2012-11-11T17:38:24Z “My father likes to present the beef sort of barely cooked,” Blunt says, and then lowers her voice a few octaves to imitate her father requesting his steak be served “bleu”, his doner kebab rare. Emily Blunt: 'It's about human beings and how they're affected by a crisis' 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But his speaking voice was a little different then — it was a slightly higher octave and his accent was a little bit different. Q. and A.: Noah Bean on Portraying David Bowie 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z One of the challenges in the piece is how to create tension over the whole, or even just over shorter periods of double octaves, or continuous fortissimo dynamics. A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Turning her voice into a soft, mellifluous siren, she extends notes up and down an octave. Music Review: Sue Raney at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-14T01:00:46Z Recurring figures in triplets hover in the pianos, while a sighing, spare melody floats above in bare octaves. Review: Philip Glass Comes, Finally, to the New York Philharmonic 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z The sound of the fortepiano is more varied across the registers than that of a modern-day grand, here featuring a harplike middle register, a lower range with a satisfying burr and a sparkling top octave. American Classical Orchestra Ends Its Season in ‘Prague’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z I not only changed octaves, I changed voices. ArtsBeat: Anjelica Huston Performs 'September Song' in Her 'Smash' Singing Debut 2012-05-03T13:00:52Z The high-pitched stabbing sounds of the violins repeat, joined in deepening octaves — though a half-step lower, for a strident clash, evoking both the knife’s unrelenting slashes and the cries of Janet Leigh’s Marion. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Close Encounters’ Roll at the Philharmonic 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z His vocal coach, Anne-Marie Speed, helped raise Boon’s singing voice two octaves to match Rotten’s register, “in the same way you might teach a dancer to do the splits,” Boon said. Becoming Johnny Rotten, When John Lydon Would Rather You Didn’t 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z My voice went up an octave, squeaky in its terror. Adventures at the Clown Palace: Stand-up comedy helped me confront my depression and cultural taboos 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z When she was singing, her voice swooped and scooped over nearly two octaves without anywhere sounding relaxed. Review: Meredith Monk and Anne Waldman, in Playful Collaboration 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z Valdés's octave span might even have frightened Rachmaninov, and his headlong keyboard exploits – traversing most of jazz piano history, and often veering into classical – sound as if they might burst open the doors. Chucho Vald?s 2010-04-06T21:35:00Z The hunt for Raoul Moat got the news so flustered, it shrieked its reports at a pitch several hundred octaves above satire. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: The news 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z Most of the piece is a sort of chaconne, in eight-measure segments over an octave ostinato that begins in the cello. Review | San Francisco’s Amaranth Quartet offers world premieres in its D.C. debut 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The voices have dropped about an octave of course, but that’s about it. Q&A with David Cassidy: Yep, he’s still a global icon. And, yep, he’s still on tour. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z After spinning a dissonant web of melodic strands in the opening minutes, the instruments arrive at that most fundamental of intervals: the perfect octave. How Do You Teach People to Love Difficult Music? 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Li confidently nailed the cascade of prestissimo octaves that conclude the work. Music Review: George Li, Pianist at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-11-02T22:39:01Z Sometimes, as in “September 2006,” the road is clear and the progress steady: about a half tone every 20 seconds, to span two octaves. New Music From the Rotem Sivan Trio and Anna Webber 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z "If I Can Dream" boasts a lady choir and a horn section, and his voice goes gravelly in the higher octaves as he strains for transcendence. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z The crescendos of the left-hand octaves unfolded with spine-tingling intensity, vividly contrasted with Mr. Ohlsson’s poetic nuance as the piece morphed from funeral march to danse macabre to quiet melancholy. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Celebrates a Bicentennial at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-24T23:27:22Z Each side is divided into treble, alto, tenor and bass, though men and women freely mix between sections, singing an octave apart. Shape, rattle and roll: The amazing survival of shape-note singing 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z When he emerged in the late ’60s, Nilsson had a gorgeous tenor that stretched across three and a half octaves, a wry sense of humor and a deep respect for the studio. Pop genius Harry Nilsson left an unreleased record behind. Now you can finally hear the completed version. 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z This banjo/octave mandolin/guitar/piano-playing songbird is being hailed the next Patty Griffin. Best New Southern Musicians 2011-01-27T21:20:03.957Z On the studio recording of “Emotions,” Carey arrives, miraculously, at a high G, all those octaves up the scale, during a run at the end of the word—and why wouldn’t this be literal?—“high.” Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Toots whistled the Old Spice deodorant commercial in the 1970s and ’80s, and he wrote the jazz standard “Bluesette,” which he originally played on the guitar while whistling the melody an octave higher. Toots Thielemans: A harmonica titan looks back on a stellar career 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z She notes: “Women’s voices always rise two octaves when they talk to cleaning women or cats.” Review: ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ Lucia Berlin’s Soul-Baring Stories 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z I sang it in the same key but an octave lower than him. Bryn Terfel: 'I'd like to sing Citizen Kane' 2012-06-26T17:40:14Z Piano octaves echoed gently against the strings in the mystical opening passages. Music Review: Perter Serkin and the Shanghai Quartet at the 92nd Street Y 2012-11-13T23:52:09Z The propulsive first movement opens with barbaric repeated piano octaves and chords, engulfed by snide brass and woodwinds. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:45:27Z If you heard my voice before I was in radio it was probably an octave higher. Kojo Nnamdi and the role of a lifetime 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z As he wrenches forth fragments from the spiritual “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” the words octaves apart and isolated by long silences, the evening takes on the tone of a funeral march. Review: In ‘Monochromatic Light,’ Artists Saturate and Vacate Space 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z In the mysterious second theme, which unfolds in wandering parallel octaves, she brought out subtleties that often slip by in other performances. Music Review: Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-21T22:23:35Z 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. Behind a ‘Best New Artist’ Nod: Yola’s 20 Years of Experience 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Thielemans was also an accomplished guitarist and a first-rate jazz whistler — he often played his most famous composition, “Bluesette,” on the guitar while whistling the melody one octave higher. ‘Toots’ Thielemans, master of the jazz harmonica, dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “A lot of artists think it’s all about them,” Axelrod says, his voice an octave lower. Is this the face of L.A.’s next major artist? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Trifonov attempted to make Rachmaninoff a composer for all things, blowing up the big, old-fashioned tunes, thundering with the finger-breaking runs and octaves, trying to be modern and conventional at the same time. Can two sensations make revolutionary music? Conductor Dudamel and pianist Trifonov try to find a spark 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z "When I was four, an aunt gave me a toy organ, an octave and a half, and I'd write and play my own tunes." 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z The floated opening notes of one song felt brittle; one quietly rising octave barely found its landing. Review: In Piotr Beczala’s Recital, Melancholy Mixes With Defiance 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z After a couple of repetitions, the line is pushed digitally higher by several octaves, like a flag held high at the front of an infantry charge. Review: New Releases by Kelly Clarkson, Sannhet and Asleep at the Wheel 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z “It killed me,” she said, her voice rising an octave. The Sheryl Crow You Never Knew 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Should this octave be played with the fifth finger or the fourth? Play It Again by Alan Rusbridger – review 2013-01-20T06:00:01Z He presents the Adagio almost straight, with the addition of a bass pedal an octave lower. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z The opening theme returns by way of a transition of shocking economy: the note E, played repeatedly but given the illusion of variety by jumping octaves. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z After the tranquil orchestral introduction, Ms. Wang jumped into the main section of the bustling first movement, tossing off the busy passagework with brio, dispatching bursts of chords and arm-blurring octaves with ease. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z Her lilting “Goodnight, My Someone” and Hill’s raucous “Seventy-Six Trombones” could not be more oppositional — until it turns out they are in fact the same melody, in different octaves and at different tempos. Review: Even With Hugh Jackman, ‘The Music Man’ Goes Flat 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In repeated passages, he would play a thumping low octave with his left hand, then sweep up the keyboard in a burst of dizzying arpeggios, landing on a crackling high note. Review: Murray Perahia at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Bartok’s “Out of Doors,” a 15-minute suite in five movements, explores the elemental side of nature, complete with pungently modern evocations of Hungarian peasant drums and pipes, and modal folk tunes played in eerie octaves. | Martina Filjak: Birthday Gift: New York Debut 2009-12-17T05:42:00Z He's always retained jazz credibility, however, with a sensitive vocal style that can sweep across several octaves without missing the tricky intervals and syncopations of jazz virtuosity. Al Jarreau ? review 2011-07-05T18:30:01Z That she suddenly booted it up an octave and nailed every note was the icing on the cake. Norah Jones defies labels in genre-, career-spanning concert 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z She lowered her voice an octave and furrowed her brow. Up Close : Cameron Russell, a Model, Puts Looks Aside 2013-07-10T20:50:18Z Lortie played some of the quieter etudes with serene delicacy and an almost hazy, blurred focus, but there was plenty of thunder-power in the blistering octaves of the B Minor etude of Op. Louis Lortie runs through a Chopin marathon 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Yet, when you hear it, your ear is already thinking ahead, in a sense, to the nice holistic octave that is sure to follow, bringing relief and stability. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Indeed, the only real highlight of the performance was a single note: Ms. Lewis ended that Triumphal Scene with a high E flat, an octave above what Verdi wrote. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z In études that provide rigorous workouts in double thirds, octaves and more, Rana brings out ebullience, mystery and fearsome intensity. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z When she began her career in the early 1990s, she was capable of outrageous vocal feats, singing whole octaves higher than almost everyone else, stringing together dog-pitch bleats into ecstatic runs. Review: Mariah Carey and Her Can’t-Look-Away Debut in Las Vegas 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “I’m so happy for you,” I said, though I’m sure the octaves and intonation were off. My sister’s perfect life 2012-07-04T00:00:00Z Her voice sounded great in its natural state, spanning a few octaves and not losing any power when reaching higher falsetto notes. FKA Twigs debut short, slow & mesmerizing | Concert review 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z “You thought it would be fun/To be a freak like me,” he taunted, starting in his baritone register and leaping two full octaves to finish the phrase. Review: Bilal Brings Far-Out Viewpoint to This Life and His Show 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z For them, the act of drawing a bow across the open string of a cello, for example, is anathema, just as the octave doubling of a melodic line was for Schoenberg and the twelve-tone school. Classical Notes: Yan Maresz’s “Tutti” 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Walker has an equally elastic, if less gymnastic, voice, one that he moves through octaves, yowling and bellowing with emotion, carrying syllables across the bars like birds flying across stone walls. Ryley Walker explores a pastoral past with mesmerizing folk set at the Echo 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z In its simplest terms, just intonation means that the ratios between notes are whole numbers, rather than the irrational ratios that divide the octave in the familiar framework of equal temperament. How a Pro Skateboarder Became an Apostle of Ancient Tuning 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Then there are the two sustaining pedals, which manipulate dampers for all but the top one and a half octaves - which themselves decay automatically, regardless of touch or pedalling. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z Caine solos like a man who's constantly laughing – giggly little phrases at the top end are mixed with big, hearty, descending octaves. Uri Caine Trio – review 2012-07-10T18:15:01Z “The Hut on Fowl’s Legs,” which evokes the dwelling of the witch Baba Yaga, was a din of cascading octaves and brutal chords, played at hyper-drive. Music: Two Young Pianists, Forging Connections 2010-02-25T22:49:00Z So it was in the "Ariodante" aria, which had been transposed down an octave to suit the singer's range. With tenor Bostridge, rare Baroque arias sound newly minted 2011-05-08T12:35:00Z The absurdity of the situation kicked my voice up an octave. My little Einstein 2013-02-13T00:00:00Z Both men put tender wheeze and murmur into their voices, but sing in unison or octaves as a default mode, which grows dull almost instantly. New Music: New Albums by Sabina Sciubba and New Bums 2014-02-17T22:37:49Z “I had surgery in the shoulder over Christmas,” says the 74-year-old Mancunian, fixing me with eyes full of mock sorrow, before dropping his voice a comedy octave. Ian McShane on reviving Lovejoy and becoming the saviour of America 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Her voice is in her boots; rich and deep, at least three octaves lower than it ought to be. A modern movie star is born 2011-01-22T00:04:10Z The first five notes remind Mr. Levit of a later piece, Schumann’s song cycle “Dichterliebe,” which begins dissonantly with a C sharp quickly followed by a D two octaves lower. Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ Doesn’t Deserve Your Eye Rolls 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z 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. Diamanda Galás, Still Wild and Primal, Returns to the New York Stage 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Not this time: “For you don’t love me/ And I’ll always be…” And finally comes the torrential title word, an impossible octave or two higher, registering the ecstasy of misery. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z This is rampant on the chorus of “Hello,” where she leaps an octave on the “I” and “you”—“When I call, you never seem to be home.” The Singularity of Adele’s Soul 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z He realized he had to drop his voice by an octave, so he went to work with a vocal coach. Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z In the work’s first movement, “Coastline With Figures,” the strings play wavelike, rocking figures as the piano roams through a vaguely pentatonic-sounding melody in octaves that also “spells” the names of friends of Ms. Liu’s. Music Review: Summery Sounds of a New Hall in Rockport, Mass. 2010-06-11T22:45:00Z There were lovely, poetic moments throughout and plenty of virtuosic dazzle, as with the octaves of No. 10. Music Review: A Lang Lang Solo Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-30T21:17:22Z In “a twilight’s song,” that meant plenty of octave leaping to capture the stark emotionality that underlies Cummings’s meditative verses. Music Review: Molding Sound to Behave Like a Solar Eclipse 2010-10-22T23:27:00Z The first movement, marked Molto Moderato, begins with a seemingly tender theme, a steady, flowing melody played in right-hand octaves with an inner voice. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z The classic instrument to represent a bird would be the flute, but here it’s brought down a few octaves. Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z At his first entrance, when the piano plays the main theme in heroic chords and octaves followed by downwardly cascading passagework, Mr. Pollini sounded nervous and jumpy. Review: Maurizio Pollini Reunites With the Philharmonic and Makes Up for Lost Time 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z “My brain was going, ‘Noooo, this has to happen,’ ” he said, his voice raising an octave or two. Music: Serving Pop Stars, but on a Skewer 2011-06-09T12:00:00Z First, Harburg resisted the idea; he wanted the patter songs to carry the story, and he hated that opening octave jump. Oz Revisited – Part 4: Where’s That Rainbow? 2013-09-19T14:51:07Z Sitting astride her piano bench, Amos alternated between a grand piano and an electric keyboard, playing rumbling, percussive bass chords and spiraling right-hand arpeggios that traversed up and down octaves. Tori Amos at Chicago Theatre 2011-12-11T13:40:00Z The piano part teems with clusters and crisscrossing octaves. Music Review: Lang Lang?s Bartok With the New York Philharmonic - Review 2012-01-19T23:29:36Z The Scarlatti, played on a standard grand and with its own chance elements as hands leap across octaves, offered complementary heat and warmth. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues ? review 2011-08-20T23:06:12Z Surrounded by much instrumentation as if to mask her deficiencies, she capped "Vision" with an upper octave squeal. Billboard Music Awards are ho-hum, but Taylor Swift was impressed 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The pianist starts a looming octave chime in the upper register and the band fixes upon a sequence of obscured, sometimes-mucky harmonies, until he finally breaks out into a lyrical solo. PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Then I just made it all up and took my voice down an octave or two. Q. and A. With Eva Green: Darkly, Demonically, Daringly ‘Dreadful’ 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z He played the leisurely pianissimo passages with a silky touch, and attacked the thundering octave passages with spectacular bravura. At Seattle Symphony: Elliott Carter premiere, rousing Rossini | Classical review 2013-02-08T17:56:18Z Her funeral at Warsaw's Powazki cemetery, a burial ground for many Polish celebrities, drew hundreds of fans of her powerful voice that spanned four octaves. Poland's Villas, once Las Vegas star, laid to rest 2011-12-19T16:44:15Z There was not one bombastic moment, hard to avoid in this piece, which is at times dense with repeated chords and bursts of octaves. Review: Daniil Trifonov Brings Subtlety to Rachmaninoff 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z It was as memorable as the blazing runs and octaves that followed. Review: Yuja Wang Sweeps Through a Rachmaninoff Marathon 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Dropping her voice an octave, she adds: "Although I do have my moments." Kim Cattrall and Marianne Elliott on sex, age and Sweet Bird of Youth 2013-06-10T18:30:01Z “The range of the piece is an octave plus a fifth,” she explained. O Say, Can You Sing at the Ballpark? It’s a Tough Song 2013-07-04T00:02:52Z Collectively the group covers nearly four chromatic octaves, but a sequence of four consecutive notes requires four players working in tandem. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z Bounding from his half-finished strudel to the shiny black grand, he spreads his broad, powerful right hand to strike seven octaves in rapid succession in a phrase from Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto. Austrian piano virtuoso enjoys life on-off stage 2012-07-12T12:00:16Z “That’s a bit much, my goodness,” he said, cracking up, then shifting again, taking his voice down an octave to register a hint of moral disapproval: “My word.” Eddie Murphy Is Bringing Eddie Murphy Back 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z He maintained the relentless rhythmic tread as the music broke into a demonic march with pummeling left-hand figurations and octaves. Music Review: Romantics Meet (Composer and Pianist), and Sparks Fly 2011-03-10T22:36:28Z She understands that grief and love are “like the same note played an octave apart, at the same time, ringing and resonating together.” Book review: ‘Black River,’ by S.M. Hulse 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The piece is a study in right-hand arpeggios, which race up and down the keyboard as the left hand adds a grounding bass line in octaves. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z Then she moves to a small microphone and says, in an octave that telegraphs the ingenuousness of an 11-year-old black girl: “I want to share something with you.” A Performance Artist Testing the Limits of Her Own Endurance 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Lin sailed through its virtuoso challenges, conquering the manic octaves that unfold at the work’s conclusion. Music Review: Steven Lin Shows His Confidence in Recital 2014-02-12T22:13:35Z The clearest example is the major seventh, the interval that is just one little half-step shy of being an octave. Musical Dissonance, From Schumann to Sondheim 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z She wavers in pitch and occasionally drops an octave to hit notes. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z An assortment of ethereal tones — made by tuning stellar data up thousands of octaves to the audible spectrum — will emerge from a 92-loudspeaker rig known, coincidentally, as Constellation. The Scan: How Animals Think and Harmonic Stars 2014-03-31T21:22:13Z The bass line bounces up and down an octave within a dense thicket of other sounds: chirps, blips, whistles, swoops, taps, glassy sustained tones and now and then, for comic relief, a burp. The Playlist: Kane Brown Confronts Gun Violence, and 12 More New Songs 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z But the entire set is an hour of grueling double octaves, defiant leaps and punishing runs as one ferociously challenging tone poem leads into another. Daniil Trifonov and Yuja Wang Play at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Countless stories that start with “Mommy, guess what?” trigger a switch in my brain to focus and lift my voice a few octaves higher. The ugly, exhausting reality of parenting, and why we hide it from our children 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z But his vocal range is octaves above Mr. Cohen’s bass, in the androgynous zone of altos and countertenors. Music Review: Asaf Avidan, the Israeli Singer-Songwriter, at Irving Plaza 2014-02-23T21:55:35Z The octave between the two syllables of “Starman,” in Bowie’s song of that name, is lifted from the interval between “Some” and “where” in “Somewhere over the Rainbow.” David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Where some pianists use the right-hand octaves to crown the motion of the first movement, Fujita dispatched them efficiently, as if they too were caught in the swirl of Schumann’s wildness. Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z He waddles a few octaves down for the verse—“follow me undeerrr”—and then contorts back into the chorus. Listening Booth: “Baby Girl” by Matt Martians 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Sound enveloped her, an A in chords and octaves, a ringing that made every nerve end in her body vibrate in a state that wasn’t painful, was oddly pleasurable but curiously distracting. Dragonsong: The Unforgettable Anne McCaffrey 2011-11-30T16:30:35Z Surprisingly, the man known for a vocal range of more than four octaves did not always know music was his calling. System of a Down's Serj Tankian goes classical with symphonic concerts in Northridge 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z For nearly two decades, the Japanese violinist Mari Kimura, 48, has been exploring unsuspected subterranean sounds as much as an octave deeper. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z We all have our best registers, our natural octaves, and Smarsh’s is the grounded, oral, anecdotal range of her hardscrabble Kansas kinfolk. She Grew Up Poor on a Kansas Farm. Her Memoir Is an Attempt to Understand Why. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Its stubborn character extends from driving octaves in the bass to shattered-glass effects in the piano’s delicate upper reaches. Review: Protecting and Defending Ukraine’s Cultural Identity 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Reports claimed the pint-sized singer had a vocal range of over four octaves, a fully formed adult larynx and an upper whistle register so high dogs would be beckoned whenever she sang. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Each addresses a pianistic challenge from a particular angle, using intervals of a third, fourth, sixth and octave, for example. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z The only full-blown composition was Paul Motian’s “Victoria,” a sober hymn whose melody unfurled on both piano and bass, in slow-drift octaves. Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z At one point, Ms. Davis suggested that a passage in which she sings “Didn’t he kill me that day?” be moved an octave lower. For Black Lives Matter, Classical Music Steps In 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Stepping to a second microphone connected to his sampler, Sheeran layered his voice in harmony, piling octaves. Ed Sheeran at Staples Center: The boy next door steals hearts 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z This is all-out playing that holds nothing back, and Grimaud's white-hot intensity with all those parallel octaves and leaping chords is exciting to witness. Hélène Grimaud proves again that she does music her way 2012-11-02T20:31:04Z 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. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z 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. For Shirley Collins, a Folk Revival of Her Very Own 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z He returns to it in a lower octave and then a higher one; at the end he lingers over a few notes, hinting that they still hold mysteries. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z He was running weird changes and curves, jumping octaves with the smooth stride of an Olympic hurdle-racer. A Quest to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Dudamel’s rendition felt plain; he seemed much more at ease with the hopeful yearning of Copland’s open octaves — upright, columnar, blindingly bright. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Comes to Town, Megawatt Appeal on Display 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The solo is staged within two octaves, dipping only once as low as the area of middle C, spelled by infrequent breath-like rests, a minimal reliance on triplets, and a few heady riff episodes. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z When he drops his voice an octave for the version on the Eponymous greatest-hits collection, the track ratchets up in potency. Annotated For the People: A Track By Track Look at the New R.E.M. Retrospective 2011-11-15T10:00:27Z At times Carey seemed nervous, even cautious, to attempt the glass shattering octaves, whistles and melisma acrobatics that established her as one of the most untouchable voices in pop. Mariah Carey in Vegas: 5 things we learned from her residency debut 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Footnote: “A cat can hear two octaves more than humans. Each ear has 27 muscles, which allow that ear to move independently to accurately locate the source and distance of a sound.” Are You a Dog Person or a Cat Person? Or Hamster, or Turtle, or ... 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Andrew Rannells and Tituss Burgess teamed up for “It Takes Two” from “Into the Woods,” with Burgess jacking up his voice an octave to sing the Baker’s Wife’s part. Perspective | The Tonys brought back the fanfare, but Broadway still faces many challenges 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z She sang parts of several songs an octave lower than the recordings. Review: Mariah Carey and Her Can’t-Look-Away Debut in Las Vegas 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Simone is known for her husky tone and limited octave range, while Ledisi exudes warmth onstage and covers four octaves, easily adding exuberant hollers, sophisticated scats, sultry rasps or quiet harmonies. Nina Simone Saved Ledisi’s Life. Now She’s Paying Tribute on an Album. 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z If you asked them to play it up an octave, they would just play it exactly the same way. ‘Ramones’: The Story Behind a Debut Album From Punk Pioneers 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z This is actually very much a spoken song, so I think that they chose well for me, in that they didn’t hand me a bunch of high octaves. ArtsBeat: Anjelica Huston Performs 'September Song' in Her 'Smash' Singing Debut 2012-05-03T13:00:52Z The phrases leap octaves, beginning at the lowest string and jumping to the highest — which, at an unhurried pace, creates a foundational resonance. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z It’s pitched two octaves above the original, run through various distortion and equalization effects and given a very short tail of reverb, creating a digital sound with a human core. The Inside History of ‘Where Are Ü Now’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z A wordless little ditty, like a child singing to herself, is quickly doubled a couple of octaves below; a religious stateliness in the keyboards lies over a deep-pocketed groove, accented by spacey, jazzy guitar lines. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z She cut her performing teeth in her native England, appearing in concerts and vaudeville and on radio programs, becoming widely renowned for a unique voice that spanned four octaves. Julie Andrews to be honored in L.A. 2011-05-02T06:06:56Z A woman’s pitch is about an octave higher than a man’s. Eva: transgender voice-training app helps women and men talk the talk 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z She and Mr. Kahne realized that it was best for her to sing in the range of her speaking voice, which is sometimes two octaves lower. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z The program concluded with an animated performance of the familiar Sonata No. 4, which begins with a dreamy Andante and segues into a wild Prestissimo bursting with octaves and crazed, leaping chords. Music Review: ?Spectral Scriabin? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-04T22:54:27Z Auerbach then took Goldman through the same theme bounced up over three octaves, just in case anyone was doubting his control. Review: At the NSO, a composer in delightful dialogue with Mozart Two assertive trumpeters, Glen Andrews and Derrick Shezbie, carried most of the melodies, arranged in fortified octaves or a resplendent unison. Music Review: New Orleans Horns, Raw and Funky 2011-04-11T20:26:08Z The instruments come together, haltingly, in a rising scale, and it soon becomes apparent that they will finish out the octave, leaving only a tolling tinkling bell in their wake. Review: John Luther Adams, Lauded and Played at Columbia 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z 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. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The ballade opened with a forceful line that began in the low register of the piano and rose up the keyboard in octaves, as if making some grim declaration. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z If you want the technical details, though they aren't essential, it is a chord of the note A, stretching across seven octaves and played with quietly throbbing pregnancy by the strings of a symphony orchestra. If Blair absorbs me, Mahler's chord ousts him every time 2010-09-02T20:30:00Z Unable to bite into octaves as he usually could, Bavouzet had to abandon his hopes of recording Bartok. After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “But you didn’t have to cut me off/ Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing,” he accuses his ex, jumping up an octave. Rating Breakup Anthems: How Does Gotye?s ?Somebody That I Used to Know? Stack Up? 2012-05-15T10:00:50Z It’s hard to top the opening of “Lonely Moments” — the way its spare octaves, separated at first by bewilderingly long silences, gather momentum and burst into rousing, syncopated harmonies. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Gaisford plays with probing commitment in the passionate fifth movement, a whirlwind of octave leaps and rapidly ascending figurations. Classical Recording: Michael Hersch: Sonata No. 1 & 2 2010-04-30T18:41:00Z Here, he turns his forensic eye on Brahms's mightiest sonata, No 3, Op 5, gripping us from the start with its opening declamatory descending octaves and holding us spellbound through to the ecstatic close. Brahms: Piano Sonata No 3; Handel Variations – review 2013-01-13T00:05:34Z “I had a three-octave range, and now I think it’s maybe slightly over an octave. I can sing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’ New staging of ‘Tommy’ to include Russell Harvard and Monica Lijewski 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z One instrument, here a glockenspiel, is assigned to play a steady, ceaseless stream of octave C’s. Music Review: Summertime Anarchy, but of the Guided Kind 2011-07-03T21:09:12Z “We have imprisoned our music in a jailhouse of 12 bars,” Mr. Eaton told Princeton Alumni Weekly in 1985, referring to the 12 tones of the octave. John Eaton, Composer and Electronic Innovator, Dies at 80 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Dank played brilliantly, giving a muscular and virtuosic performance that highlighted the varied sonic palette of the piece, with its Brahmsian sweep, fiendish octaves and serial techniques. Music Review: ‘Happy Birthday, Ursula!,’ a Tribute at Symphony Space 2014-03-11T22:07:11Z The strings' first entry consists of a rhythmic octave leap followed by four descending chromatic notes. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z If historian Jay Kennedy is right, Plato structured his writings according to a Pythagorean division of the octave into 12 tones. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z Octave 9, the name of Seattle Symphony’s new performance venue, hints at the sense of potential yet to be tapped: The modern concert grand piano is limited to a standard range below eight octaves. At Seattle Symphony’s new Octave 9, a 24-hour music marathon promises Cloud 9 for new music lovers 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Soon the piano plays an arching theme in right-hand octaves, like some passing nod to those soaring-melody moments of Romantic piano concertos. Review: Concert Hall, Meet Cabaret 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Thatcher tried to get round the problem by lowering her voice an octave, but she ended up sounding more like a woman pretending to be a man. What makes a great speech? 2011-02-26T00:07:28Z “At first my rap was going to be an octave higher,” she said of her whispery bars. We’re Going to Talk About ‘Bruno,’ Yes, Yes, Yes 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z After that, she segued into an overwhelming version of “I Will,” jumping up and down octaves in rough fashion, slapping the song — and by extension its ungrateful subject — around. Mitski Leaves Her Mark at the Knitting Factory 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Her performance was replete with intrusive rubatos, scrupulous voicings, added bass octaves and a wide dynamic range. Pianist Angela Hewitt performs Bach’s ‘The Art of Fugue’ at Shriver Hall in Baltimore It’s Jarosz’s first album of original material and she not only sings but plays acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, mandolin and the seductively twangy octave mandolin. Sarah Jarosz: from bluegrass jams to the Neptune 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Over an ambling arpeggio, a melodic chord progression pads softly in the background and hi-hats ripple dramatically, wrapping the central sound of the song, a keyboard octave that reads as a repeated gleam. Music Monday: Jarv Dee, Basic, Kanye West 2010-08-16T18:24:00Z “Cold tonight,” Buckle said, his voice an octave deeper. Runnin’ down a dream with Tom Petty: His childhood abuse, his relationship with Stevie Nicks and his short, wacky run with Gary Busey 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z He typically has a narrow window to test the strings that correspond to each note, check the octaves and finger the keys to make sure the sound is pitch-perfect. Piano tuner marks 25th year at Newport jazz fest 2010-08-05T17:18:00Z Elegantly voiced chords morphed into sharp snippets of melody, glistening scales climaxed with sudden silences, whispered figures up in the stratosphere of the piano were answered with rumbling double octaves down below. Ahmad Jamal is still surprising at 84 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Choruses and bridges were revised; major keys were introduced; Tucker, whose raging vocals have helped define the group’s sound, sometimes sings two octaves higher than normal. Sleater-Kinney Asked St. Vincent for a Creative Spark. The Trio Blew Up. 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z There are bursts of vehement octaves before the tension subsides, with parallel intervals creeping up into the piano’s high range. He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z “The gift,” she calls her voice, which once traveled three octaves. Listening to her older records, Joan Baez hears perfection in an ‘unsurpassable’ voice 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Going from beautiful, slow melodies to rapid yelps and gasps just to prove how hard it is to sing that fast and move up and down octaves the way she does. Letters To Fiesta – New Band Up North #27 2013-05-20T16:00:01Z She’s the guitar player, I’m the octave mandolin player. On the record I’m not playing anywhere but the choruses. Steve Earle on backing Bernie “until he’s out”: “The Democratic party is going to have to deal with both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren when they get to the convention” 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z She proved capable of powerful sounds in Brahms's massive chords and octaves, bringing a gripping force to the tumultuous coda of the first movement. Vienna Tonk?nstler/Andr?s Orozco-Estrada ? review 2011-02-13T22:46:00Z In the four sections of "Wanderer," performed without pause, Watts' octave playing, finger strength and wrist technique proved undiminished. Pianist André Watts is playing like a teenage phenom at age 69 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Hatto, he added, played “the octaves so incredibly smoothly that they seem to flow from her fingers” A Violinist on How to Empower Asian Musicians 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Then, at the bridge, she skips up an octave, sputtering out bleats of ecstasy, before retreating back under the covers. Taylor Swift's '1989': New Album Review 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z It seems impossible to understand how, with only eight notes in an octave, we don't simply run out of music. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z At one point he hammered at the upper reach of the instrument, as if willing an extra octave to materialize. Music Review | Chris Dingman: Vibraphonist Dazzles, but Without Fanfare 2010-03-19T21:36:00Z The problem of how to finger an octave C-sharp minor scale is fast receding. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z And on “Luna,” a love letter to a crush, Kiyoko jumps octaves as she sings, “You get me wild you know/I’ll chase your shadow.” Hayley Kiyoko Revs Up With Arcade Fire and Chills Out to ‘Friends’ 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z In doing so, Mr. Franzen has added a new octave to his voice. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z I scratched and scratched and finally got to the point of making the octave.” For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z In “Columbia Icefield,” by contrast, it never quite reaches the octave: Rather than achieving a triumphant vantage, this music is modest, ambivalent. Review: The Prettiest, Most Progressive Campfire Music Ever 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z 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? For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z So far she has mastered the subharmonic octave, third, second and fifth. For a Violinist, Success Means A New Low Point 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z He sings, “Young people are always the same”; and she responds, “Yes, yes,” with a D sharp falling nearly an octave below to an E, as if sighing. Review: Lise Davidsen Shines, and Evolves, in a ‘Rosenkavalier’ Debut 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z He demonstrated some admirable technical chops during Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, easily conquering the double octaves and other athletic maneuvers of this popular showpiece. Music in Review: Yale in New York in an All-Handel Evening at Zankel HallMacedonian Pianist Simon Trpceski at Zankel Hall 2012-02-28T23:30:49Z In the score, Picker gives Sacks a musical analogue: the note A, which the opera opens with in octaves, before being propelled by an ostinato. An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z For three weeks they debated the superiority of their string instruments and brainstormed new ways to divide the octave scale: stick to quarter-tone increments or implement the Western 12-step system? In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Often a theme was scored for trumpet and tenor in octaves, or in a chattering counterpoint. Review: Ibrahim Maalouf Salutes a Great Arabic Performer 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z I’ll just say that this short piece involves an ultimate prolongation of the note A, in octaves, in pummeling repetitions, in rhythmic leaps and crashes, in almost everything imaginable. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z A decade of experimentation resulted in a set of eight violins ranging in size from the 11-inch treble to the 7-foot contrabass, each pitched half an octave apart. Music Review: At the Tank, New Sounds From New Strings 2010-05-31T22:56:00Z “I don’t even want to mention his name or see his bloody hand movements,” Cherry said in September via Skype from Ibiza, in a speaking voice an octave below where she usually sings. Neneh Cherry Never Stopped Taking Risks. Now She’s Making Politics Personal. 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z With the violas now taking the place of the violins, the sound shifted down an octave, its burnished sheen given body with brasses and punctuated by sometimes raucous percussion. Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Her voice drops an octave, and she says, in the sweetest tone of conciliation, “Oh, honey, you’ll get there.” I will wear a swimsuit one day: Manifesto of a righteous fat-ass 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z When members of the band sing that first line, they really are halfway there because the next line jumps up what sounds like an octave or three. We’re all livin’ on a prayer: How a hair band anthem from the least cool ’80s rockers became a classic 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z I can still speak an octave or so higher in speech, so I just speak a little higher. This Is What It's Like to Play Big Bird on Sesame Street for 45 Years 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Prince’s voice, he added, “dropped 10 octaves and said, ‘That’s funny.’ Bobcat Goldthwait Has Moved On. Why Can’t We Catch Up? 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z At the American Festival of Microtonal Music, held annually in New York, you could do even better: one festival concert in May offered performances on a synthesizer tuned to a 53-note octave. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z Her default mode is to speak slowly in a tone that sounds at least an octave lower than her natural range. “The Mysteries of Laura”: NBC’s nostalgia problem 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The music unfolds with strange, angelic tinkling figures in the high strings and upper octaves of the piano, broken up with volleys of rhythmic energy. Critic’s Notebook: Under Leif Ove Andsnes, Ojai Festival Enjoys Long Scandinavian Nights 2012-06-12T21:53:19Z But countering that mood are ominous elements, like a bare octave that keeps intruding. Richard Goode Plays Bach and Schubert 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Thursday’s program stars Frauke Aulbert, a German vocalist with a range covering four octaves and vocal techniques from around the world. Classical Music Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z One was high-pitched, the other an octave lower. They Want to Be K-Pop Stars. But They Won’t Hide Who They Are. 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z In our pitch analogy, they are separated by as little as three octaves—suggesting a cosmic sonata easily performed on a piano. JWST Finds Strange Harmony in Early Galaxies and Black Holes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z And while her songs can provide an exhilarating challenge with octave drops, melismatic melodies and word density, they are forgiving as long as you commit to the earnestness or the screaming. The ultimate Taylor Swift karaoke power rankings 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z At least in one case, Alexa’s female voice dropped a few octaves, sounding more masculine. How Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z When the calls came for lights, camera, action, she smiled widely and her voice rose an octave. ‘Now, Let’s Be a Starfish!’: Learning With ‘Ms. Rachel,’ Song by Song 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z “Zeani had a dark, sensuous voice that spanned just under three octaves, moving easily over the notes with no sense of stress, communicating a passion that elevates the notes.” Virginia Zeani, renowned and versatile opera diva, dies at 97 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z For Day, the reverb of the well provides extra depth to her voice as she crescendos, adding melisma and going up an octave along the way. 3 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next few days 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The song has easy rhythms, said Glass, but it’s more challenging to sing because of the wider vocal range and the way the melody line leaps by fifths and octaves. The ultimate Taylor Swift karaoke power rankings 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Mary was recovering from a cold that sent her voice several octaves lower. Perspective | All those movie lines we used to quote? They’re gone with the wind. 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z “Some people in this city don’t have the spine or the moral courage to fix it,” Ms. Williamson said, lowering her voice two octaves for effect. Marianne Williamson Wants a Debate 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z “She does not have more than an octave range, she does not have the ability to belt. I’m not a Rihanna fan.” Conservative pundits slam Super Bowl's Rihanna and Sheryl Lee Ralph (but love Chris Stapleton) 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z “Don’t touch my things!” he’d say with his voice rising an octave like an alarm. Perspective | André Leon Talley’s estate auction reveals how he lived and survived 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Their approach, they believe, puts a spotlight on the beauty of music that does not follow Western norms, like playing in an octave scale. A Drummer Showing the Way to ‘the Freest Musical Universe’ 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Oftentimes bass voices can easily sing soprano range songs, just an octave lower. We built a karaoke song generator. Here’s how you and Pandora helped 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z After advising crew members to “keep the high octaves separate from the lower ones,” he informed the musician standing next to him: “Thank you so much. You’ve played brilliantly as always.” The story behind Oscar winner Hans Zimmer’s creation of Kraken’s intro music 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z I had no other skills!” she says, her Irish brogue rising an octave in disbelief. Hollywood misogyny 'broke' Eve Hewson. Then a killer role put her right 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z They ran the song back and Vic unleashed a riveting solo, racing across octaves and punctuating it with well-timed ricochet bowing. With an assist from Kendrick Lamar, Blxst has become the sound of L.A. hip-hop 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z And “Let It Go” feels like a Liszt piano concerto, with “a lot of octaves and a lot of technical turns.” Lang Lang believes Disney songs are good for kids — and the classical music world 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Some artists are easily characterized this way — Johnny Cash generally sings low, while Mariah Carey generally sings high — but many songs that become radio hits span multiple vocal ranges, sometimes as much as three octaves. We built a karaoke song generator. Here’s how you and Pandora helped 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z She also explained to the late-night TV host why her voice was “a good two octaves higher” than it used to be. Kathy Griffin turns to #CancerTwitter for medical advice after doctor 'ghosted' her 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Melodies usually stick to the same four to seven pitches in each octave that are called the scale notes. No music training? No problem: Even novices intuit complex music theory 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Thompson has a low octave voice and his words move at an unhurried pace. Perspective | The optimistic melancholy of Bennie G. Thompson 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Goodyear is a player of multiple personalities: His body bowed tight through the first movement — a gargoyle hammering octaves. Review | NSO takes on Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and the racket of the audience 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The crowd increased the volume of their cheers another octave as McGlynn waved his arms for more noise. Ballard FC kicks off its existence with passionate fan base already installed and an easy win 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z "They comprise, in substance, the use of the first four notes of the minor pentatonic scale combined with the use of octaves and harmonies in a vocal chant," he argued. Ed Sheeran awaits verdict in 'traumatising' Shape of You copyright trial 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z I particularly enjoyed watching Maya Rudolph sing “key change” in different octaves and key changes into different cameras. Valentine’s Day movie guide: The good, the bad and the ‘cringey’ 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Ms. Mangeshkar was known for her range — she could sing in four octaves — and her gift for singing in character, tailoring her voice and emotions to the actress she was voicing onscreen. Lata Mangeshkar, Bollywood’s Most Beloved Voice, Dies at 92 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z The sound was unlike anything I'd heard before - high-pitched yet perfect, the voice didn't strain as it travelled up the octaves hitting the top notes. Lata Mangeshkar: 'Why I loved the Indian singer as much as The Beatles' 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Mangeshkar was known for her range — she could sing in four octaves — and her gift for singing in character, tailoring her voice and emotions to the actress she was voicing on screen. Lata Mangeshkar, Bollywood’s Most Beloved Voice, Dies at 92 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z “Lucy Ricardo is about an octave above Lucille Ball.” How Aaron Sorkin got Nicole Kidman past early outcries over her Lucille Ball casting 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z In his new base in Los Angeles he formed a band, Meat Loaf Soul, and his distinctive voice, which ranged over three octaves, brought a number of offers of recording contracts. Obituary: Meat Loaf 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z There's a vocal run in the chorus of Dumb Love that covers an octave and a half in two bars. Sound Of 2022: Mimi Webb makes music to break up to... as her ex-boyfriend found out 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z “I’m a good two octaves higher, I think,” she said, “It might be. It’s higher than Mariah Carey, I know that.” Comedian Kathy Griffin revels in being 'cancer free' and 'uncanceled' 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z She stood on her tip toes and kicked her voice up an octave. Texas clinic stopped performing abortions, but the anti-abortion activists haven’t left 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z The breathless octaves in the opening of Der Erlkrönig evokes the rapid heart palpitations of the fevered boy in his father’s arms, galloping through the stormy, windswept night. How Music Can Literally Heal the Heart 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z A soprano with a 2½ -octave range, Ms. Powell was pressed into show business at age 2 by parents convinced that she was their ticket to fortune during the Depression. Jane Powell, sunny ‘girl next door’ in Hollywood musicals, dies at 92 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z A soprano with a 2 ½-octave range, Powell was pressed into show business at age 2 by parents convinced that she was their ticket to fortune during the Depression. This week’s passages 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Comedian Kathy Griffin is “so cancer free” and speaks a few octaves higher now. Comedian Kathy Griffin revels in being 'cancer free' and 'uncanceled' 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Ondra takes it to another octave, just as he does on the rock face. “Uuuh-aaah!” Sport climbing’s Ondra screams his way to top 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z He also sang all vocals, and the 11 tunes wisely spotlight his arresting tenor, which is handsome at either end of his register, as octave intervals show. Review: Winterpills frontman does it all well on solo album 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z At the height of her performance, Carey jumps several octaves and hits a high B, which immediately received a huge pop from the crowd. 10 most memorable Super Bowl national anthem performances 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z But henceforth, gravitas is no longer measured in octaves. Perspective | The sound of a shifting power structure 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z It was like “a 155-millimeter artillery shell going off nearby hit me in both ears,” but “of a much deeper octave and much louder,” says Tevis, a former Marine, now 72 and retired. The U.S. finally has a system to prevent deadly rail accidents. It took 50 years 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s minimalist and compact, with two octaves of slightly small-than-average-size keys, a matte black plastic construction, and three soft-touch rubber buttons at the top. Roli Lumi review: a portable keyboard that lights the way for first-time musicians 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Turner again wowed with the depth of her voice, singing the song in a male octave. Seattle’s Payge Turner advances to knockout rounds of ‘The Voice’ 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z But then he walked her out, she recalled, and his raspy voice “dropped another two octaves.” For George Floyd and Black men in recovery, ‘everything just piles up’ 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z At Walmart, Daniel scanned the aisles for snacks, his voice rising an octave as he argued with Gibson over the energy drinks, chips and candy he placed in the shopping cart. A young man’s path out of Houston’s oldest housing project echoes George Floyd’s journey nearly 30 years ago 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Screaming or loud talk does not have the same impact as a slow and measured and cadenced statement where each word sinks to a slightly lower octave. Opinion | Michelle Obama turned the ‘angry Black woman’ trope upside down 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z As Abhyankar explained, his guru’s vast range of at least three octaves and such a versatile sound was without limitation since he exploited all three ranges freely – which made him a complete musician. Pandit Jasraj: tributes paid to 'incomparable genius' of Indian classical music 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Gathered around a piano inside the theater, music director Cassandra Nickols Gonzalez strikes chords while students warm up their voices, buzzing their lips and meowing octaves. The life of a high school singer the day coronavirus canceled prom and everything else 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z The strings played a single note, across seven octaves. Livestreaming the Seattle Symphony Became a Source of Connection in Dark Times 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z It’s far easier to manhandle four octaves before a crowd of 72,000 worshipers swaying to your beat than it is to stare into a smartphone and sing, essentially, to yourself. Opinion | Where there is humor, there is hope 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z It rumbles through the back of his throat and jumps an octave. Wrestler finds serenity in the chaos of his art 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Her song is another lovestruck ballad, but it takes a quiet approach - with Brandstorp conveying delicate vulnerability as her vocals flutter up the octaves. How does the UK's Eurovision entry stack up? 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Warren reaches octaves in her uptalking that the Vienna Boys’ Choir would envy. From Bryan to Bernie 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z Strange too that the most compelling role is Polyphemus, written for a bass with a huge range of 2 1/2 octaves. Review: Philharmonia Baroque delivers Handel and myth for our sexually fluid, #MeToo times 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z You don’t have to lie, the man said, grinning, in a voice four octaves higher. “Visitor” 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Anderson-Lopez notes that the first time the title phrase is sung, “ ‘Into the unknown …’ It’s an octave, it’s safe, it’s the boundary we usually know. ‘Frozen 2’s’ songwriters and directors take us ‘Into the Unknown’ 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z That allows the MacBook Pro to get half an octave deeper bass. Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch review: the one you’ve been waiting for 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z On the road, he somehow began building his special instruments, tuned to 43 notes per octave, instead of the 12 used in Western scales. Review: Harry Partch, the hobo years 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z “Yeah, for sure,” he said, his voice rising an octave, as if there was any other choice. Kings' core four tasked with reviving franchise's Stanley Cup aspirations 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Western ears consider a pitch at double the frequency of a lower pitch to be the same note an octave higher. Musical Note Perception Can Depend on Culture 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Dropping her voice an octave, she speaks with a convincing drawl scorched by liquor and coated with irony; her whisper requires rapt concentration. Commentary: Why the Emmys shouldn't overlook 'Sharp Objects' ' Amy Adams 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Suero did the same, his range an octave higher, and punctuated it with what sounded like a laugh. Everything clicks for the Nationals, who get a pivotal 6-2 victory in St. Louis 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But Johnson, whose expletives flow in varying octaves, wants the nation to confront its past and rewire its future. All 77 counties voted for Trump. These musicians are fighting to turn Oklahoma blue 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Brescia complimented his friend noting that her voice sounded “really pretty” and saying he liked her “lyrical content and octaves and notes.” Heidi Montag reveals she wants to become a Christian pop artist on 'The Hills: New Beginnings' 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z The sound waves were so long that to hear them we would need ears the size of suns, able to detect pitches more than 50 octaves below the lowest note on the biggest church organ. Review: At Mt. Wilson, cosmic sound art reaches far beyond a mere moon landing 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Orliński’s cadenza began on an A, his voice rising like a peal of bells up to a high F and then descending, with a trill, to the F an octave lower. A Millennial Countertenor’s Pop-Star Appeal 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Then, perking up and rising a few octaves, he continues: Here’s what Aziz Ansari said about his sexual misconduct scandal in his Netflix special 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z The keyboard is minimalist, with just buttons for power and for changing the octave up and down. A light-up keyboard from Roli teaches you to play piano like it’s Guitar Hero 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z Best example of Yorke yodeling: The whole run begins at 8:45 on “MD118,” and finds our hero skipping through octaves with gleeful abandon. We inhaled all 16 hours of Radiohead's ‘OK Computer’ sessions. Here are the best bits 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The B flat note, 57 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 1275. What Is a Black Hole? Here’s Our Guide for Earthlings 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z They wear cheap suede ankle boots and incomprehensible furry vests that flap against them as they talk, pushing their voices out an octave too high, lotioned, soft, gummy hands gesturing wildly. Halle Butler’s “The New Me” Is an Office Novel for a Precarious Age 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The keyboard is a little over an octave except there are two black keys not included, which makes choosing songs a challenge. Century-old chimes system in college chapel restored 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The failed chorale assumes properly grandiose proportions, although it is undercut by an over-the-top cascade of double octaves, doubled goofily by glockenspiel. The Concerto Challenge 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z “So what am I supposed to do?” she asked, her voice rising an octave, the frustration building, eye shadow smudging on her cheeks as her sentences collided. Devastated by one shutdown, dreading the next 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z 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. Why the Grammys sound amazing and sometimes go wrong 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z We harmonize when we agree—starting our sentences a perfect fifth or an octave from where the last sentence left off—and grow dissonant when we disagree. Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The pitch of Paige's voice helps keep the dogs excited but Cody has to raise his two octaves to encourage them up to race speed. Husky racing threatened by receding ice 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Three times, the strings intervene with sustained D’s in stacked octaves, as if issuing warnings. The Concerto Challenge 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The sonata begins with the piano hitting a loud low F-sharp and the violin repeating what would sound like seven dissonant Es if they weren’t four octaves higher, and thus in their own worlds. Review: With violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, all bets are off 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z The composer must use the pitches from one of these rows, in any octave, in order before reusing the earlier pitches. Counterexamples in Music Theory 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Then Walton’s tone changed, his baritone voice raising an octave as he explained how important defense is to the Lakers’ success. Lakers happy to have once-waived Johnathan Williams back on the team - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Or the whole-tone scale, which divided the octave into equal intervals? The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z That meant months of vocal work that lowered the actor’s range a full octave. Review: Bradley Cooper sings, Lady Gaga acts, and their version of 'A Star Is Born' is a total knockout - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Many instruments’ ranges fit comfortably onto either the treble or bass clef, perhaps adjusted by an octave when necessary. How Math Helped Me Learn Early Music 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z One day, at the top of an octave, the mystery trumpeter added an unexpected flourish. ‘Godfather Waltz’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z WIMBLEDON, England — Long before Frances Tiafoe’s voice dropped an octave and he outgrew his clothes, sprouting to 6 feet 2, he told his parents he was going to handle everything. Frances Tiafoe upsets 30th-seeded Fernando Verdasco in first round at Wimbledon 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z If you pinch a taut string in the middle, its pitch goes up an octave. The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z As elementary school-age students, they sang in higher octaves — alto or soprano. Perspective | A love of music led one woman to a lifetime of teaching, and a lifeline for some boys at risk 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z But, as dads do, James raised his baritone a few octaves and talked noodles. Analysis | The graybeard Cavaliers have turned experience into their best weapon against the Celtics 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z It spans four octaves, with the smallest bells about the size of a flower pot and the largest bells up to five feet across and weighing more than 1,500 pounds. UW to ring in new bells Thursday atop Kane Hall 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z There are also controls on the back of the device to adjust volume and a low / mid / hi slider that changes the octave. This Kirby Otamatone is the musical instrument you need 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z She pounded her chest, turning her body into an instrument, and sounded as if she were a fountain, gurgling syllables in shifting octaves and resonances. Voices of the City: Experimental vocalist Carmina Escobar uses her voice to explore herself and others 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z With a voice that can gracefully maneuver across octaves, the singer fills her measures with dramatic flourish that recalls British singer Kate Bush. California Sounds: Five must-hear spring releases from L.A.-area artists 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Her eyes rolled into the back of their sockets, her back arched on the floor and she began to hyperventilate, her voice a rising octave until it emerged as a yelp. Canada Struggles as It Opens Its Arms to Victims of ISIS 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z In private, her voice sounds an octave deeper. ‘Where is Ivanka?’ First daughter seeks control in dual role as White House aide 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z We hear pitch logarithmically, and an octave corresponds to a frequency ratio of 2 : 1. From Music to Mathematics: Exploring the Connections (Review) 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z But Hwang crashed out, colliding with a competitor, and the chorus of fans dropped an octave for a bar or two, only to rise again in its push of Lim. South Korea Goes Wild for Short-Track Speedskating (and Its First Gold) 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Pink noise is closer to how the human ear and brain perceive sound, which is in terms of octaves, and not absolute frequency. The secrets behind the audio for the Super Bowl halftime show 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “There were just too many octaves. I remember asking one piano teacher, ‘Am I just going to play Bach and Mozart for the rest of my life?'” Special keyboards at SMU help musicians with small hands 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z “There were just too many octaves. I remember asking one piano teacher, ‘Am I just going to play Bach and Mozart for the rest of my life?’” Special keyboards at SMU help musicians with small hands 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Instead, you will hear a pitch an octave below the A 440. From Music to Mathematics: Exploring the Connections (Review) 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s a bit like the cooing of a pigeon pitched down an octave or two. New England laboratory endeavors to count island seals 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z With white noise, all these frequencies contribute to the overall level in octave change, but with pink noise, every octave contains the same amount of energy. The secrets behind the audio for the Super Bowl halftime show 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z “Now that I’m here playing octaves, it’s really great.” Special keyboards at SMU help musicians with small hands 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z “Now that I’m here playing octaves, it’s really great.” Special keyboards at SMU help musicians with small hands 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Twelve half-steps in an octave is practically an axiom in Western music, and it could be confusing to have to justify it at the outset. From Music to Mathematics: Exploring the Connections (Review) 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Ms Luna's note is a full octave - or eight notes - higher than that. Hitting the highest note in New York 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z 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. The secrets behind the audio for the Super Bowl halftime show 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z A few nice streaks of color were overshadowed by blurs of chords and octaves pounded so loudly as to fear for the Steinway piano's life. Moscow State Symphony goes big and bold in Northridge – LA Times 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z They linger on the final word, climbing an octave to heavenly. Music Review: Melismatic magic from the Wailin’ Jennys 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z He said: ‘I can’t do this, I’m turning bright red, my voice is an octave higher.’ 'After, I feel ecstatic and emotional': could virtual reality replace therapy? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z “The octave consists only of five tones and two semitones,” he explains. Opinion | The Anxiety of John Stuart Mill 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Jim Mora is the reason so many of us scrunch up our faces and raise our voices several octaves whenever we say the word “playoffs.” Former NFL coach Jim Mora is back with another hilarious soundbite. Only this one is NSFW 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z "It's one octave you've got to play with. Some songs sound like others. Things are messy enough in the world of pop music and records and downloads, free music and things like that." Burt Bacharach calls for change in music plagiarism law - BBC News 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z The Australian players, by contrast, recite the anthem in a droning manfully low octave. Chile v Australia: Confederations Cup – live! 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z The psychologist later played it back to him and said: ‘Is your face red? No. Are you speaking an octave higher than normal? No.’ 'After, I feel ecstatic and emotional': could virtual reality replace therapy? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The treble and tenor sections typically sing the same sections an octave apart. Shape-note singing group keeps tradition in Missouri 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z His voice soars, and in a split second, he’s a superhero leaping from octave to octave. What to listen to now: Perfume Genius, Pokey LaFarge, Adrian Marcel and Jlin 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Because joystick deflection increased sound frequency exponentially, we used a logarithmic scale and measured frequency in octaves relative to the starting frequency of 2 kHz. Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The music must also include other important data, including the octave and expressions. Indiana alum translate music compositions into Braille 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z And thank you for raising it an octave for Luke and I, because now we have to sing it live all the time. What happens when you put Josh Gad and Luke Evans at a piano with Alan Menken? Disney magic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z “I’ll tell ya, if I do win,” he said, laughing as he dropped his voice half an octave to match Mr. Sinatra’s, “I will be the one singing ‘My Way,’ at the inauguration.” Joe Piscopo Considers Running for Governor of New Jersey. No Joke. 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z As you walked 10 miles for your breakfast you’d chatter with your friends in 10 octaves. If you were an elephant … 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z 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, and lower their voices several octaves. Why Do Our Recorded Voices Sound Weird to Us? 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Her earlier albums were musically sparse, seemingly so she could highlight a wondrous voice that dances among the octaves. Beyoncé, Frank Ocean, Lucy Dacus, Chance the Rapper and more: L.A. Times music writers pick their favorite albums of 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z “Most of us are not professional singers. We can carry a tune, but we’re not singing a song that requires four octaves,” Miranda said. Lin-Manuel Miranda navigates the Pacific to help send 'Moana' on a daring adventure 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z “Should I bring it an octave higher?” he asked, and of course, the crowd roared back in the affirmative. How Justin Bieber turned KIIS-FM's Jingle Ball into an acoustic jam session 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z Cats’ ears can move in multiple directions, and they can hear at two octaves higher than people. A cat’s sandpapery tongue is actually a magical detangling hairbrush 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z On “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in September, Mrs. Obama lowered her voice several octaves to impersonate the president lecturing his daughters on global warming at the dinner table. The Closer: Michelle Obama 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Iggy notes admiringly how he was forced to sing at least an octave higher “just to find musical space that James wasn’t occupying.” ‘Gimme Danger’: Iggy Pop and the Stooges, playing it straight 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z “There has to be a very clear distinction,” she said forcefully, her voice an octave lower than the others, “between somebody playing around with somebody that wants to, and something that is totally unwarranted.” How the 2016 Election Turned Into a Referendum on the Treatment of Women 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z In the process his voice seemed to drop by octaves as he began to deliver songs almost in a whisper. How Argentina’s gravel-voiced crooner put the soul back into tango for the rap generation 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z His voice lifts an octave and its inflections are softer, as if, in his parlance, he has moved from the locker room into the light of more discerning eyes. Trump's 'Access Hollywood' unmasking and the searing power of video to shape the historic moment 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z If you hit them quietly you can hear that they have overtones, octaves or chords of notes. Crash, Then Listen Carefully: Secrets of a Cymbal Master 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z Listeners were immediately floored by her incredible vocal range; she was known to hit at least five octaves. New Google Doodle Celebrates 'Peruvian Songbird' Yma Sumac 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z In addition, the original recording features the 3/4 melody played by Thielemans’ guitar blending in unison with his whistling, an octave higher. Jazz harmonica master Toots Thielemans dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Consonant intervals, such as an octave, perfect fourth or perfect fifth, are integral ratios of harmonics — 2:1, 4:3 and 3:2, respectively. The people who don’t get ‘Eleanor Rigby’ 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z “I’m going to arrest you,” she playfully scolded one iris she wasn’t happy with, her voice climbing an octave as she finishes the sentence. Iris Lady: Local woman shares love of gardening, flowers 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Dots and lines drawn on clear cellophane control elements of the composition and musical expression such as the note, octave and vibrato. 'Old school' synthesiser built 40 years on - BBC News 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Deev’s voice dropped an octave and adopted a martial edge as he told an official he would be ready to travel the next morning. Russian volunteers seek a foothold as wildfires rage in Siberia 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The instrument, unlike the more familiar blues harmonica, plays all 12 intervals of the chromatic octave. Jazz harmonica master Toots Thielemans dies at 94 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z His cheerful voice is an octave higher than expected and his sentences run without punctuation. Stephen Peat, Former N.H.L. Enforcer, Struggles to Care for Himself 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Then one day she piped up, her voice an octave or two higher than usual: “I’m afraid.” After a Cancer Diagnosis, Reversing Roles With My Mother 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Johnson’s voice climbed a couple octaves and he let out a burst of breath. Sticky fingers: The rise of the bee thieves | Brett Murphy 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z While Hart is teaching her to count the notes and learn octaves and memorize finger positions, Smith wants to get lost in the melody. Homeless veterans learn more than piano from volunteer 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z During this period, her operatic powers grew more muscular, with an ever-widening octave range and a timbre that was increasingly warm and enveloping. ‘Sarah Vaughan: Live at Rosy’s’ Review 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z The 23-year-old Oklahoman’s breath control needs work, showing he’s still a raw talent, but his scoops, slides and octave leaps suit the material. Music Review: Parker Millsap sings Bible Belt blues 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Surprising factoid: Black holes can emit a musical tone; it’s a B-flat about 50 octaves below middle C on your piano. 3 Must-Read Books for Geeks 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Rather, Martin and the band recorded a piano solo at half speed then replayed the sped-up result, which was an octave higher, on the final master. How George Martin's studio tricks and innovations changed pop music 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z I still have a 3 1/2 -octave range, which is rather large. He’s been called Humpty Dumpty, but he once beat out the Beatles 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z He dropped his voice an octave to imitate President Obama: ‘‘Justin, I like to think of myself as a young politician. Trudeau’s Canada, Again 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z That was something he played with his left hand in octaves on the piano. Brian May on 40 years of Bohemian Rhapsody: 'I still listen to it in the car' - BBC News 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Lauderdale drops down half an octave to sing “Super Power” to excellent effect, and the closing “Mysterious” is good and fast. Music Review: Jim Lauderdale gets rootsy on double album 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z I feel like in my 20s I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. 'Digging for Fire's' Rosemarie DeWitt: 'I wasn't a good ingenue' 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z Her voice began to raise a few octaves as her hands trembled. Death at the Elvis museum | Brandon Harris 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z I promptly resumed voicing my displeasure several octaves higher than before, hoping this behavior would get someone to at least acknowledge my existence and alleviate my pain. Bunion Blues: One Woman's Experience With Foot Surgery 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The music is a far cry from its Trinidadian roots, with many more notes added over the decades, along with harmonics and octaves. The steel band hammering out the sound of Antigua - BBC News 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z |
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