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Definition of Intonations
1. intonation [n] - See also: intonation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intonations
Literary usage of Intonations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"... how Poetic Language, can represent Thought, by pointing out, first, how Soum,s
represent Thought in Primitive and then in Poetic Words and intonations; ..."
2. Sexual Science: Including Manhod, Womanhood, and Their Mutual Interrelations by Orson Squire Fowler (1870)
"intonations MODIFIED BY LOVE STATES. \,,l only in every vocal utterance sexed,
... nur vocal intonations told all ; " meanwhile showing that tho ..i. ..."
3. A New School of Gregorian Chant by Dominicus Johner (1906)
"The Chants and intonations of the Priest. a) intonations of the Gloria and Credo.
... intonations ..."
4. Lectures on the English Language by George Perkins Marsh (1887)
"... AND intonations. IN a historical sketch of the genetic development of the
parta of speech, we should naturally begin with the Interjection, both because ..."
5. The Essentials of æsthetics in Music, Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and by George Lansing Raymond (1921)
"... Requirements of Imagination—Of Sympathy—Representation versus Imitation in
Music—Representation in Music of intonations of Speech—Of Natural Humming and ..."
6. Art in Theory: An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1894)
"Natural intonations and Articulations of the Voice as Developed into Music and
Poetry—Natural Marking, Shaping, and Combining by the Hands ..."
7. Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China, and on the Chinese by Thomas Taylor Meadows (1847)
"ON THE intonations OR TONES CALLED SHENG BY THE CHINESE. THIS is a subject which
puzzles the beginner very much, not merely in Europe, but even in China. ..."
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