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Intonation
Variation in pitch
In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal
Intonation_(linguistics)
Musical tuning based on pure intervals
Just intonation is the tuning of a musical interval without beats. The result is an acoustically pure sound that resonates within the harmonic series.
Just_intonation
Pitch accuracy in music
In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument. Intonation may be flat, sharp, or both, successively or simultaneously
Intonation_(music)
Intonation pattern in some varieties of English
(HRT), also known as rising inflection, upspeak, uptalk, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentences
High_rising_terminal
Timing, rhythm, and intonation of speech
prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech, including intonation, stress, rhythm and loudness, that occur simultaneously with individual
Prosody_(linguistics)
System of phonetic notation
a limited extent, prosodic) sounds in spoken (oral) language: phones, intonation and the separation of syllables. To represent additional qualities of
International Phonetic Alphabet
International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Use in music of microtones (intervals smaller than a semitone)
1934–2006, just intonation, 72-tone equal temperament) Terry Riley (U.S.A., b. 1935, just intonation) La Monte Young (U.S.A., b. 1935, just intonation) John Corigliano
Microtonality
Japanese language feature
America. Poser, William (1985). The Phonetics and Phonology of Tone and Intonation in Japanese. Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vance
Japanese_pitch_accent
Clause type associated with questions
intonation) You're coming? (question, typically spoken with rising intonation) A question like this, which has the same form (except for intonation)
Interrogative
Basic musical interval
semitones. In systems of just intonation, several types of semitones are encountered. Pythagorean tuning, or 3-limit just intonation, is generated by a sequence
Semitone
Method of tuning a musical instrument
Pythagorean intonation as that will make the scale sound best in tune, then reverting to other systems for other passages (just intonation for chordal
Pythagorean_tuning
Request for information
recipe said you could use either.] In speech, these are distinguishable by intonation, i.e., the question is interpreted as an alternative question when uttered
Question
Combination of three or more notes
triad on C Septimal minor triad on C Pythagorean minor triad on C In just intonation, a minor chord is tuned in the frequency ratio 10:12:15, reflecting an
Minor_chord
Pitch accent is a term used in autosegmental-metrical theory for local intonational features that are associated with particular syllables. Within this framework
Pitch_accent_(intonation)
Canadian dance musician
(PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 146. "Intonation Top Songs - Greatest Hits and Chart Singles Discography". musicvf.com
Joée
The Intonation Music Festival was a yearly summer music festival held at Union Park in Chicago, Illinois. The festival was held on July 16–17, 2005. It
Intonation_Music_Festival
Health profession
rehabilitation of such neurological impairments. For example, melodic intonation therapy is the practice of communicating with others by singing to enhance
Music_therapy
Relationship among tones of the chromatic scale
Using the exact 3:2 ratio of frequencies to define a perfect fifth (just intonation) does not quite result in a return to the pitch class of the starting
Circle_of_fifths
Musical tuning system
a tuning system that slightly compromises the pure intervals of just intonation to meet other requirements. Tempering is the process of altering the size
Musical_temperament
Segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour
specific prosodic properties. These properties can be those of stress, intonation (a single pitch and rhythm contour), or tonal patterns. Prosodic units
Prosodic_unit
British phonetician (1882–1937)
known for her work on English intonation as well as the phonetics and tone of Somali and Kikuyu. Her book on English intonation, written with Ida C. Ward
Lilias_Armstrong
Concept of modes in Byzantine music theory
Raasted intonation, but only the books of the cathedral rite used such explicit intonations, also between the sections, where these intonations were called
Echos
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
convey emphasis, contrast, and other such features in what is called intonation. However, certain languages—tonal languages—additionally use tones to
Tone_(linguistics)
Western Iranian language
characterized by falling intonation at the end of the sentence. Questions without a question word are characterized by rising intonation at the end of the sentence
Balochi_language
Relationships between music and mathematics
Below are Ogg Vorbis files demonstrating the difference between just intonation and equal temperament. You might need to play the samples several times
Music_and_mathematics
Voice conversion software
realistic speech-to-speech transformations, accurately preserving the intonation and audio characteristics of the original speaker. In contrast to text-to-speech
Retrieval-based Voice Conversion
Retrieval-based_Voice_Conversion
Change in pitch at the end of an utterance
divided into two or more intonational phrases, at the end of each intonational phrase. It can also refer to a low or high intonational tone at the beginning
Boundary_tone
This is a list of a selection of musical compositions in just intonation composed since 1900. List of quarter tone pieces "His Music". harrypartch. Retrieved
List of compositions in just intonation
List_of_compositions_in_just_intonation
Grammatically correct sentence demonstrating lexical ambiguity
and the necessity of punctuation, which serves as a substitute for the intonation, stress, and pauses found in speech. In human information processing research
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher
American actress (1946–2025)
Holliday, she's the finest screen comedienne we've ever seen. It's in her intonation; you can't quantify it easily. When Groucho Marx or W. C. Fields or Holliday
Diane_Keaton
Sound system of the French language
The yes/no intonation is a sharp rise in pitch occurring in the last syllable of a yes/no question. The information question intonation is a rapid fall-off
French_phonology
Sounds and pronunciation of the Romanian language
rising intonation. — Ți-e foame, nu-i așa? [ți-e foame, nu-i a↗șa] (You're hungry, aren't you?) Unfinished utterances have a rising intonation similar
Romanian_phonology
Condition involving social and behavioral differences
interpretations of meaning. Speech characteristics such as volume, rhythm, and intonation (prosody) can vary, and atypical prosody is estimated to occur in at least
Autism
Musical scale set of twelve pitches
share a similar asymmetry. In Pythagorean tuning (i.e. 3-limit just intonation) the chromatic scale is tuned as follows, in perfect fifths from G♭ to
Chromatic_scale
Systematic organization of spoken sounds of the Danish language
Danish intonation reflects the combination of the stress group, sentence type and prosodic phrase, where the stress group is the main intonation unit.
Danish_phonology
Note sung or played at a slightly different pitch than standard
blue notes are intervals of just intonation not derived from European 12-tone equal temperament tuning. Just intonation musical intervals derive directly
Blue_note
1993 film by Steven Spielberg
tape of Schindler speaking, which Neeson studied to learn the correct intonations and pitch. Fiennes was cast as Amon Göth after Spielberg viewed his performances
Schindler's_List
Powership
to supply electricity to the power grid on Ambon for five years. "HR Intonation – 9214551 – General Cargo". Retrieved 2016-11-16. "Karadeniz Powership
MV Karadeniz Powership Yasin Bey
MV_Karadeniz_Powership_Yasin_Bey
American composer (1926–2019)
was an American contemporary music composer, known for his use of just intonation. He was called "one of the foremost composers of microtonal music" by
Ben_Johnston_(composer)
Chord having a root, a major third, and a perfect fifth
letter of its root. In integer notation, a major triad is {0,4,7}. In just intonation, a major chord is tuned to the frequency ratio 4:5:6. The scale allows
Major_chord
Dialects of the English Language spoken by Native Americans
similar intonation patterns, markedly different from General American: a lower level of pitch fluctuation and an absence of a rising intonation in questions
American_Indian_English
Phonology of the English language
Arnold, Gordon Frederick (1961), Intonation of Colloquial English, London: Longman Pike, Kenneth Lee (1945), The Intonation of American English, Ann Arbor:
English_phonology
Form of classical music composed for a small group of instruments
players can use expressive intonation, changing the pitch of a note to create a musical or dramatic effect. "String intonation is more expressive and sensitive
Chamber_music
Musical interval unit
each. Typically, cents are used to express small intervals, to check intonation, or to compare the sizes of comparable intervals in different tuning systems
Cent_(music)
Musical interval
28/12:1 or simplified to 22/3:1 (about 1.587), or 800 cents. In just intonation multiple definitions of a minor sixth can exist: In 3-limit tuning, i
Minor_sixth
Fret in the headstock of a stringed instrument
"guitar intonation" denotes to what precision the ideal equally tempered musical scale can be produced by a guitar, while "piano intonation" refers to
Zero_fret
Linguistic transcription convention
describe Dutch intonation was developed by Carlos Gussenhoven, and called ToDI. Another variation of ToBI, called IViE (Intonational Variation in English)
ToBI
Musical tuning system with constant ratios between notes
mechanical tuning limitations, sometimes use a tuning much closer to just intonation for acoustic reasons. Other instruments, such as some wind, keyboard,
Equal_temperament
Structured system of communication
such elements as stress, phonation type, voice timbre, and prosody or intonation, all of which may have effects across multiple segments. Consonants and
Language
Tuning system for musical instruments
harmonies. Hence, 5-limit tuning is considered a method for obtaining just intonation. The number of potential intervals, pitch classes, pitches, key centers
Five-limit_tuning
Class of music scales with seven notes
fifth, or by a combination of perfect fifths and perfect thirds (Just intonation), or possibly by a combination of fifths and thirds of various sizes,
Diatonic_scale
Terms for tuning an instrument and a systems of pitches
and advantages and disadvantages. The main ones are: Just intonation In just intonation, the frequencies of the scale notes are related to one another
Musical_tuning
Austronesian language spoken in southern Thailand and in western Burma
intonation in sentences. Rising contour intonations occur when saying sentences that end as questions or as exclamations. Falling contour intonations
Moken_language
English word indicating politeness
please(s) you", the term has taken on substantial nuance based on its intonation and the relationship between the persons between whom it is used. In much
Please
Sound in spoken language, articulated with an open vocal tract
usually voiced and are closely involved in prosodic variation such as tone, intonation and stress. The nucleus, or "center", of a syllable typically consists
Vowel
Musical interval
above-mentioned Pythagorean perfect fifth and fourth are also used in just intonation. Notice that the terms ditone and semiditone are specific for Pythagorean
Pythagorean_interval
Ability to name and reproduce musical intervals
intervals, is an important part of ear training, music transcription, musical intonation and sight-reading. Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch
Interval_recognition
Musical interval
may function as a quarter tone, a fifth-tone or a sixth-tone. In just intonation the quarter tone can be represented by the septimal quarter tone, 36:35
Quarter_tone
tuning, a lattice "is a way of modeling the tuning relationships of a just intonation system. It is an array of points in a periodic multidimensional pattern
Lattice_(music)
Mode in Arabic music
entirely a notational convention and does not affect the actual precise intonation of the notes performed. Practicing Arab musicians, while using the nomenclature
Arabic_maqam
Double-reed woodwind instrument
the bassoon began with an 1823 treatise describing ways of improving intonation, response, and technical ease of playing by augmenting and rearranging
Bassoon
Process of aligning text to a musical rhythm
syllables are distinguished by their suprasegmentals, or their qualities of intonation, duration, and dynamics. The numerous parts of speech hold different levels
Lyric_setting
Numerical limit on the factors used in a musical tuning system
poorly), while the major seventh chord approximates 8:10:12:15. In just intonation, intervals between pitches are drawn from the rational numbers. Since
Limit_(music)
Phonology of the Bengali language
and is always subsidiary to sentence-level stress. For Bengali words, intonation or pitch of voice have minor significance, apart from a few cases such
Bengali_phonology
Rhythmic division of time in spoken language
fact be less intelligible. Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress, and tempo of speech. Isochrony refers to rhythmic division of
Isochrony
Speech pattern used in digital content
This style is characterized by linguistic features such as uptalk, where intonation rises at the end of declarative sentences, and vocal fry, a low, creaky
Influencer_speak
American rapper and record producer (born 1982)
Lupe Fiasco performing at the Intonation Music Festival, 2006.
Lupe_Fiasco
1967 song by Traffic
emotive and residually mournful lyrics. With a distinct blue-eyed soul intonation – perfected during a seminal stint in the Spencer Davis Group – he effortlessly
Dear_Mr._Fantasy
Set of melodic formulas, figures, and patterns
others. For...example... raga. — Ammer (2004) Nomos in Ancient Greek music Intonation formula (Latin: intonatio, euouae, Noeane etc.) in Gregorian chant as
Melody_type
Music genre
found for example among the Hausa. It is characterized by melisma, wavy intonation, pitch instabilities within a pentatonic framework, and a declamatory
Jazz
Indigenous language isolate from the Southeastern Woodlands, U.S.
light Intonation varies depending upon the kinds of sentences being uttered. Declarative, negative, and command speech acts have falling intonation, while
Yuchi_language
Element of Japanese language
William John (23 November 1984). The Phonetics and Phonology of Tone and Intonation in Japanese (PDF) (doctoral thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Japanese conjugation (mizenkei base)
Japanese_conjugation_(mizenkei_base)
Adopting a new manner of pronunciation
is the process of learning the sound system (or phonology) and melodic intonation of a language so the non-native speaker can communicate with clarity.
Accent_reduction
Unicode block
geometric shapes with various fills, astrological symbols, technical symbols, intonation marks, and others. The Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block contains
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
Miscellaneous_Symbols_and_Arrows
Part of the bagpipes
many bagpipe traditions the tones of the chanter are tuned using just intonation, although bagpipe tuning is highly variable across traditions. On the
Chanter
Austronesian language spoken in Thailand
also has global intonation — for instance, interrogative sentences have rising intonation and negative sentences have lower-pitch intonation. Urak Lawoiʼ
Urak_Lawoiʼ_language
American classical composer
Series – A Compilation of Works in Just Intonation (Important Records 272) 2007 Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation (Cantaloupe Music 21043) 2001 Windham
Michael_Harrison_(musician)
2009 joke by Norm Macdonald
for their own pleasure, while others discussed and analyzed Macdonald's intonation and pacing. Writing for The New York Times, Jason Zinoman called it "one
Moth_joke
tuning means 3-limit intonation—a ratio of numbers with prime factors no higher than three. Just intonation means 5-limit intonation—a ratio of numbers
List_of_pitch_intervals
Musical interval
also known as a submajor interval, or as a superminor interval, in Just Intonation), is an interval that is neither major nor minor, but is, instead, in-between
Neutral_interval
taken from the syllables (written in ligatures "ʅʅ") sung during the intonation which precedes a melody composed in this mode. The name "phthora" derived
Nana_(echos)
Vintage electric guitar
onto the Ozark’s steel control plate, and the main purpose is to improve intonation and thus retaining the guitar’s signature sustain. Pickup Single-coil
Supro_Ozark_1560_S
Musical concepts
are mathematically exact for just intonation, which meantone temperaments seek to approximate. In just intonation, a minor chord is often (but not exclusively)
Major_and_minor
Type of question
English, echo questions have a distinctive prosody, featuring a rising intonation. A speaker may use an echo question to seek confirmation because they
Echo_question
Extinct East Germanic language
This article contains Gothic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of letters. Gothic
Gothic_language
English word
versatile discourse marker or continuer, it can also be used with appropriate intonation to show doubt or to seek confirmation ("OK?", "Is that OK?"). Some of
OK
Type of performance art
aesthetics of recitation and word play, such as the performer's live intonation and voice inflection. Spoken word is a catch-all term that includes any
Spoken_word
Dialect of English
English, with several features of French origin remaining strong, including intonation, vocabulary, and certain accent features. The Cajun accent is frequently
Cajun_English
Brass instrument
but contains a complex series of tapers which affect the instrument's intonation. As with other brass instruments, sound is produced by blowing air through
Trombone
Symbol indicating one semitone lower
in the old quarter-comma meantone system would be 76.05 cents, in just intonation it would be 70.57 cents, and in Pythagorean tuning 113.7 cents. In well
Flat_(music)
Diatonic scale tuning sequence proposed by Ptolemy
only with intervals from 5-limit just intonation. While Ptolemy is famous for this version of just intonation, it is important to realize this was only
Ptolemy's intense diatonic scale
Ptolemy's_intense_diatonic_scale
Major triad plus the harmonic seventh interval
"sweeter in quality" than an "ordinary" minor seventh, which has a just intonation ratio of 9:5 (1017.596 cents), or an equal-temperament ratio of 1000 cents
Harmonic_seventh_chord
Overview of English-learners' pronunciation
phenomenon in which non-native speakers of any language tend to transfer the intonation, phonological processes and pronunciation rules of their first language
Non-native pronunciations of English
Non-native_pronunciations_of_English
Musical instrument
keys and strings, enabling experimentation in microtonality and just intonation. The archicembalo had two manuals, but unlike those on a normal harpsichord
Archicembalo
Type of close-ended question
yes–no questions have rising intonation on the verbal complex, whereas declaratives generally have falling intonation. Unlike English, they do not involve
Yes/no_question
British journalist
television news has attracted comment. Tim Teeman in The Times described his "intonation" as "raggedy [and] querulous" in 2008, and Ann Treneman described Peston
Robert_Peston
Variety of Spanish language
Italian loanwords—giving rise to the lunfardo argot—and is spoken with an intonation similar to that of the Neapolitan language from Southern Italy. It is
Rioplatense_Spanish
Diagram of harmonic relations in music
conceived of the relationships in the chart being defined through just intonation, which uses pure intervals. One can extend out one of the horizontal rows
Tonnetz
American composer and musician (born 1935)
performance. Subsequent works such as Shri Camel (1980) explored just intonation. He has collaborated frequently throughout his career, most extensively
Terry_Riley
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Boy/Male
Tamil
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Earth
Boy/Male
German American French Shakespearean Swedish
Illustrious warrior. Army. Bright. Introduced into Britain during the Norman Conquest. Famous...
Boy/Male
Tamil
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King
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Past
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Worth Seeing
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic or genitive from Dane, variant of Dean 2, i.e. ‘son (or servant) of the dean’.Dutch : patronymic from a short form of Daniel.Czech and Slovak (Daneš) : variant of Daňek (see Danek).
Boy/Male
Biblical
Hard, difficult, straw, for age.
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Pure God
Biblical
same as Siloah
Girl/Female
American, German
Determined Protector; Will; Desire and Helmet; Protection
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INTONATION
n.
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.
n.
A thundering; thunder.
a.
Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."
n.
Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution.
adv.
In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.
a.
Of or pertaining to a vowel or voice sound; also, /poken with tone, intonation, and resonance; sonant; sonorous; -- said of certain articulate sounds.
n.
The orotund mode of intonation.
n.
Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false.
n.
The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
v. t.
To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.
interj.
An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.
n.
The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune.
a.
Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.