Re: GDP: What term do you use?

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2008 schrieb Kurt Kroon:
> I'm working on the Glossary for the GDP, and I'm stuck -- so, I'm
> canvassing the list.  Here's the scenario:
>
>     You've written a composition with a passage that needs to be played in
> a different octave.  When you describe it (this passage) to another
> musician, what term do you use?  And do you use the same term or a
> different one for the actual _process of writing_ the passage in a
> different octave (if you even bother to name the process)?
>
> German

To play/sing something an octave higher or lower is called "oktavieren" (the 
verb), the noun is "Oktavierung".

See e.g.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oktavierung

> PS: Internally, LilyPond calls this "octavation" ... which I only included
> because I couldn't think of a better term.

At least the English wikipedia page does not give a proper term for it, 
either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave#Notation

http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=106516&idForum=1&lp=ende&lang=de

Cheers,
Reinhold


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