treble

Pertaining to the highest singing voice or part in harmonized music.

He put his cigar in his mouth, and, with his right hand, up in the treble keys, he began to play, in octaves, the melody of a song called "The Kinkajou," which, somewhat notably, had shifted into and ostensibly out of popularity before he was born.

Threefold, triple.

A lofty tower, and strong on every side / With treble walls.

Every subscriber of one penny per week, who is sixty years of age, or upwards, and under four-score, to be entitled to receive treble his subscription at the end of the year; that is, his own subscription, and twice as much more.

Trebly; triply.

Whose deserts might buy him treble

The highest singing voice (especially as for a boy) or part in musical composition.

He starts out by saying that there are three sights, the mene, treble, and quadreble, but actually he discusses only two, the treble and quadreble, both of which are read at the transposition of an octave.

The voices include a counter (always below the tenor), a countertenor (moving above and below the tenor), mene, treble, and quadreble.

A person or instrument having a treble voice or pitch; a boy soprano.

The highest tuned in a ring of bells.

Any high-pitched or shrill voice or sound.

A threefold quantity or number; something having three parts or having been tripled.