octaviate

English

Etymology

Modelled on French octavier; see octavate for more.

Verb

octaviate (third-person singular simple present octaviates, present participle octaviating, simple past and past participle octaviated)

1. (music, rare) To octavate.
   • 1992, Chelys, volumes 21-22, page 33 & 37:

     He octaviates some fragments of the tune (including the first note) without even the excuse of avoiding difficult stopping.
     […]
     The transcriber adapts chords to his instrument, sometimes octaviates or simplifies the bass on technical grounds, but a peculiarity of this setting is the inclusion of some thorough-bass realization at places where the solo part plays in unison […]

   • 2000, Richard Charles Boulanger, editor, the csound book, page 317:

     As the fundamentals of each fof begin to octaviate, they are desynchronized by individual envelopes, […]

   • 2002, J C Risset, “Examples of the musical use of digital audio effects”, in Journal of New Music Research:

     In Marseille, I also generated some synthetic sounds with the MUSICV program. I chose a defective major-minor pitch scale, which does not exactly octaviate […]