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Intonation

noun

Rise and fall of the voice pitch. Synonyms: modulation, pitch contour.

Singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong.

The act of singing in a monotonous tone. Synonym: chanting.

The production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations.

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"Intonation" Quotes from Famous Books

... an earnest intonation of voice in these words, and such a simple innocence of manner, that Wilkins couldn't repress ...

— The Brother Clerks - A Tale of New-Orleans • Xariffa

... in his Magio Medica treats of Fascination as twofold: De Fascinatione per Visunt et Vocem. I have found among Italian witches as with Red Indian wizards, every magical operation depended on an incantation, and every incantation on the feeling, intonation, or manner in which it is sung. Thus near Rome any peasant overhearing a scongiurasione would recognize it from ...

— The Mystic Will • Charles Godfrey Leland

... expression of my countenance betrayed me. Several held me tight while the others spoke. Though I did not understand a word of their language, I could not fail to comprehend the tenor of their speeches. Their action, the intonation of their voices, their angry glances, showed it. "Our friends came here, and this man killed them. We came to look for them, and by the same arts with which he destroyed them he had endeavoured to destroy us. There are the proofs of his guilt. How else did he become possessed ...

— Dick Onslow - Among the Redskins • W.H.G. Kingston

... by inflection the reciprocal dependence of words and sentences. Degrees of motion corresponding with vocal intonation are only used rhetorically or for degrees of comparison. The relations of ideas and objects are therefore expressed by placement, and their connection is established when necessary by the abstraction of ideas. The sign talker is an artist, grouping persons and things so as to show the relations ...

— Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes • Garrick Mallery

... Accent, intonation—both were perfect, of the true Island speech, that delicate incommunicable sing-song. The Commandant's eyes grew rounder yet with amazement, and Vashti—afraid, perhaps, of meeting them—flung a glance of mock terror behind her, as though she had caught the footfall ...

— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch

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