octavating

English

Etymology

octavate +‎ -ing

Adjective

octavating (not comparable)

1. (music) Transposed by an octave.
   • 1977, Contact, XVIII-XXIII, page 43:

     The idea underlying this section is ‘the exploitation of non-octavating pitch-sieves (scales) and their cyclic transpositions.’

   • 1984, Richard A. Crawford, editor, The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody, page xvii:

     The tenor, originally written in standard G clef, is here written in octavating G clef, showing that it is to be read an octave lower than it is notated.

   • 1987, Bastiaan Blomhert, The Harmoniemusik of Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, page 60:

     Ob 1 = flute 1 (= octavating violin 1)

   • 1994, Antonio Salieri, edited by Jane Schatkin Hettrick, Mass in D Major, preface, page xii:

     Soprano, alto, and tenor clefs used for the corresponding vocal parts in the principal and concordant sources have been changed here respectively to treble, treble, and octavating treble.

   • 1995, Stephen Jenks, edited by David Warren Steel, Collected Works, page xlviii:

     The tenor is here written in the octavating G clef, indicating that it is to be sung an octave lower than notated. The counter parts in part 1, which were originally meant to be read as though octavating, are here written at actual pitch.

   • 1995, Daniel Read, edited by Karl Kroeger, Collected Works, pages 221–222:

     Clefs for the treble and bass have been retained, the treble clef substituted for the alto clef in the counter, and the octavating treble clef supplied to the tenor.

   • 1997, Timothy Swan, edited by Nym Cooke, Psalmody and Secular Songs, page 268:

     The octavating treble clef has been used for the tenor part, indicating that it should be sung an octave lower than written.

   • 2005, David Lasocki, editor, Musicque de Joye, page 316, note 153:

     In the expanded Gamut with its octavating hexachords, all C’s, D’s, G’s, and A’s could be allotted three voces.

   • 2011, Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Dale Cockrell, The Ingalls Wilder Family Songbook, page 343:

     I have systematically employed an octavating treble clef for tenor vocal parts.