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What does intonation mean?

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Noun
  1. (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
  2. The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
  3. Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
  4. 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.
  5. A thundering; thunder.
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Feeling, intonation, and expressiveness were all on par with the quality of the work itself, which is to say, completely beyond reproach.
Aside from some frayed wind intonation, the orchestra played with rich, sonorous beauty.
Her voice is annoyingly reedy, with a fast vibrato and intonation slightly under pitch.
Gleeful and condescending was his intonation, contoured by the mandolin accentuation of Italian.
Through sarcasm and dark comedic intonation, he seeks to expose true dilemmas and issues.
Only serious timpanists with outstanding intonation skills should attempt Batigne's Duplex.

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