In Music
See also: Eleven (disambiguation)#Music- The interval of an octave and a fourth is an 11th. A complete 11th chord has almost every note of a diatonic scale.
- The number of thumb keys on a bassoon, not counting the whisper key. (A few bassoons have a 12th thumb key.)
- In the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, Spinal Tap's amplifiers go up to eleven.
- In Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, there are 11 consecutive repetitions of the same chord.
- In Tool's song Jimmy, and in Negativland's song Time Zones the number 11 is heard numerous times in the lyrics.
- "Eleven pipers piping" is the gift on the 11th day of Christmas in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
- The Eleven is a song by The Grateful Dead.
- Eleven Records is the record label of Jason Webley, and many of Webley's works feature the number 11.
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“Thy remembrance, and repentance, and deep musings are not free
From the music of two voices and the light of one sweet smile.”
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