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
the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations the act of singing in a monotonous tone singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong rise and fall of the voice pitch
1 Klangcharakter of the registers and whistles 2 Very complex job in the building of organs, in order to achieve the optimal sound quality of the registers; one speaks due to the high requirement to this activity of the " art of the Intonierens "
Your intonation is the way that your voice rises and falls as you speak. His voice had a very slight German intonation. In phonetics, the melodic pattern of an utterance. Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the voice (see tone), but in languages such as English, stress and rhythm are also involved. Intonation conveys differences of expressive meaning (e.g., surprise, doubtfulness). In many languages, including English, intonation serves a grammatical function, distinguishing one type of phrase or sentence from another. Thus, "it's gone" is an assertion when spoken with a drop in pitch at the end, but a question when spoken with a rise in pitch at the end