Rise and fall of the voice pitch.

synonyms: modulation, pitch contour.

Roget 402: sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness etc. adj.; audibility; resonance etc. 408; voice etc. 580; aspirate; ideophone^†; rough breathing.    [Science, of sound] acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography^†; diacoustics^†, diaphonics^†; phonetism^†.    ... show more

Roget 413: melody, rhythm, measure; rhyme etc. (poetry) 597.    pitch, timbre, intonation, tone.    scale, gamut; diapason; diatonic chromatic scale^†, enharmonic scale^†; key, clef, chords.    modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation, suspension, resolution.    staff, stave, line, space, brace; bar, rest; appoggiato^†, appoggiatura^†; acciaccatura^†.    note, musical note, notes of a scale; sharp, flat, natural; high note etc. (shrillness) 410; low note etc. 408; interval; semitone; second, third, fourth &c.; diatessaron^†.    breve, semibreve [Mus.], minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver, demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver; sustained note, drone, burden.    tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic^†, mediant^†, dominant; submediant^†, subdominant^†; octave, tetrachord^†; major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode; passage, phrase.    concord, harmony; emmeleia^†; unison, unisonance^†; chime, homophony; euphony, euphonism^†; tonality; consonance; consent; part.    [Science of harmony] harmony, harmonics; thorough-bass, fundamental-bass; counterpoint; faburden^†.    piece of music etc. 415 [Fr.]; composer, harmonist^†, contrapuntist (musician) 416.    ... show more

Roget 580: voice; vocality^†; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice etc. (loud) 404; musical voice etc. 413; intonation; tone of voice etc. (sound) 402.    vocalization; cry etc. 411; strain, utterance, prolation^†; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis^†; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper; delivery.    accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation.    [Word similarly pronounced] homonym.    orthoepy^†; cacoepy^†; euphony etc. (melody) 413.    gastriloquism^†, ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism^†, polyphonist^†.    [Science of voice] phonology etc. (sound) 402.    ... show more

Dutch: buiging, intonatie, modulatie, stembuiging
Polish: intonacja

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.