Intonation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intonation \In`to*na"tion\, n. [See 1st {Intonate}.]
     A thundering; thunder. [Obs.] --Bailey.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Intonation \In`to*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. intonation. See
     {Intone}.]
     1. (Mus.)
        (a) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
        (b) Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her
            intonation was false.
        (c) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or
            singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm,
            or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See
            {Intone}, v. t.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The manner of speaking, especially the placement of
        emphasis, the cadence, and the rise and fall of the pitch
        of the voice while speaking.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intonation
       n 1: rise and fall of the voice pitch [syn: {modulation}, {pitch
            contour}]
       2: singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong
       3: the act of singing in a monotonous tone [syn: {chanting}]
       4: the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument);
          especially the exactitude of the pitch relations

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "intonation":
     AF, accent, accentuation, adaptation, arrangement, articulation,
     audio frequency, bel canto, bravura, cantando, choral singing,
     coloratura, croon, crooning, delivery, demilegato, emphasis,
     execution, expression, fingering, folk singing, frequency,
     fundamental, fundamental tone, glissando, grammatical accent,
     harmonic, harmonization, hum, humming, ictus, inflection,
     instrumentation, intonation pattern, legato, lyricism,
     mezzo staccato, modulation, monotone, monotony, music-making,
     operatic singing, orchestration, overtone, parlando, partial,
     partial tone, performance, phrasing, pianism, pitch, pitch accent,
     pizzicato, preparation, pronunciation, rendering, rendition,
     repercussion, resolution, rhetorical accent, rhythmical accent,
     rubato, scat, scat singing, setting, singing, slur, sol-fa,
     sol-fa exercise, solfeggio, solmization, solution, song,
     speech tune, spiccato, staccato, stress accent, stress arsis,
     suprasegmental, suspension, thesis, tone, tone accent,
     tone painting, tonelessness, tonic sol-fa, touch, transcription,
     vocal music, vocalization, warbling, yodel, yodeling