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Hear this out loudPause1. Low, under. 2. Under the Helmholtz Octave Designation System, a name applied to the octave which extends from C1 two octaves below the bass clef staff to B1 one octave below the bass clef staff.

against Hear this out loudPause1. : against. used chiefly in the phrase pro and contra. 2. : in opposition or contrast to.

Hear this out loudPauseVarious music dictionaries that I have at hand agree that the prefix “contra-” means “lower than,” but do not specify an octave lower, and most use contralto voice as an example.

Hear this out loudPausecontra- 1 ,prefix. contra- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "against, opposite, opposing. '' This meaning is found in such words as: contraband, contraception, contradict, contrary.

Hear this out loudPauseContra is a Latin term meaning “against” or “contrary to.” Contra is a signal indicating that the cited source directly states the opposite of whatever the author just said.

Hear this out loudPauseContra, or gifting, is an unpaid collaboration between a brand and an influencer, reviewer, or journalist. The brand (that's you) provides a product or service for free (the gift) in exchange for an authentic review.

Hear this out loudPausecontra in American English (ˈkɑntrə) preposition. 1. against; in opposition or contrast to.

Hear this out loudPausecon·​tra·​octave. ¦kän‧trə+ plural contraoctaves. : the musical octave beginning with and ascending from the third C below middle C see pitch illustration.

Hear this out loudPauseagainst, opposite, opposed to, contrary.

against Hear this out loudPause"Contra-" usually means "against," and to contradict is to go against or say the opposite of what someone else is doing or saying.

Hear this out loudPauseA semitone (sometimes called a half tone or a half step) is the distance from a white key to a neighboring black key on the piano keyboard - for example, from G to G-sharp or from E to E-flat.

Hear this out loudPauseThe word "octave" comes from a Latin root meaning "eight". It seems an odd name for a frequency that is two times, not eight times, higher. The octave was named by musicians who were more interested in how octaves are divided into scales, than in how their frequencies are related.