Intonation may refer to:
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Intonation (linguistics)
In linguistics, intonation is variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal the illocutionary act performed by a sentence, or to regulate the flow of discourse. For ex ...
, variation of speaking pitch that is not used to distinguish words
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Intonation (music)
In music, intonation is the pitch accuracy of a musician or musical instrument. Intonation may be flat, sharp, or both, successively or simultaneously.
In vocal music, intonation also signifies the singing of an opening phrase.
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, a musician's realization of pitch accuracy, or the pitch accuracy of a musical instrument
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Intonation Music Festival
The Intonation Music Festival was a yearly summer music festival held at Union Park in Chicago, Illinois.
2005
The festival was held on July 16–17, 2005. It was conceived of and launched by Skyline Chicago, who hired Pitchfork Media to curate, ...
, a summer music festival in Chicago
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Intonation unit
In linguistics, a prosodic unit, often called an intonation unit or intonational phrase, is a segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour ( pitch and rhythm contour). The abbreviation IU is used and therefore the full form is o ...
, a segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour
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Tone (disambiguation)
Tone may refer to:
Color-related
* Tone (color theory), a mix of tint and shade, in painting and color theory
* Tone (color), the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a colour
* Toning (coin), colour change in coins
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