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, a blind octave is the alternate doubling above and below a successive scale or

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notes: "the passage being played...alternately in the higher and lower octave." According to ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', the device is not to be introduced into the works of "older composers" (presumably those preceding

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Alternately, a blind octave may occur "in a rapid octave

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when one

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of each alternate

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is omitted."(June 1, 1907). ''The Musical Herald'', Issues 706-717, p.188. J. Curwen & Sons. The effect is to simulate

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using a solo instrument.

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