Intonation vs Rhythm - What's the difference?
intonation | rhythm |
(linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
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.
A thundering; thunder.
The variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.
A specifically defined pattern of such variation.
A flow, repetition or regularity.
The tempo or speed of a beat, song or repetitive event.
The musical instruments which provide rhythm (mainly; not or less melody) in a musical ensemble.
A regular quantitative change in a variable (notably natural) process.
:: ''The rhythm of the seasons dominates agriculture as well as wildlife
Controlled repetition of a phrase, incident or other element as a stylistic figure in literature and other narrative arts; the effect it creates.
As nouns the difference between intonation and rhythm
is that intonation is the rise and fall of the voice in speaking while rhythm is the variation of strong and weak elements (such as duration, accent) of sounds, notably in speech or music, over time; a beat or meter.intonation
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Noun
(en noun)- Her intonation was false.
- (Bailey)
References
* *rhythm
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(wikipedia rhythm)Noun
(en noun)- ''Dance to the rhythm of the music.
- ''Most dances have a rhythm as distinctive as the Iambic verse in poetry
- Once you get the rhythm of it, the job will become easy.
- We walked with a quick, even rhythm .
- The Baroque term ''basso continuo is virtually equivalent to rhythm
- ''The running gag is a popular rhythm in motion pictures and theater comedy