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What musical interval consists of twelve semitones and spans the distance from one note to the next of the same name?

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Octave

The word 'octave' comes from the Latin 'octavus,' meaning eighth, because in a standard Western scale, the eighth note is an octave above the first. Most humans can hear across a range of about ten octaves.

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