Intonation

Noun

 * 1) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
 * 2) Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
 * Her intonation was false.
 * 1) 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.

Noun

 * 1) A thundering; thunder.

Adjectives for Intonation
pitying; different; soft; searching; ascending; calm; genuine; limpid; liquid; sweet; steadfast; wilful; contemptuous; languorous; asthmatic; nasal; characteristic; bellowing; lazy; nervous; guttural; perceptible; muffled

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
From the verb intone.

Etymology 2
From the verb intonate.

Noun

 * Arabic: تجويد, ترتيل
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 抑揚, 抑扬, ,  ,  ,  腔調,  腔调
 * French:
 * German: Intonation


 * Japanese: 抑揚, イントネーション,
 * Korean: 억양 (eokyang)
 * Portuguese: entonação
 * Russian: интонация
 * Spanish: entonación
 * Swahili:

Related terms

 * intonable
 * intonate
 * intonational


 * intonationally
 * intonator


 * intone
 * intoner