noun

• (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
• Emotive stress used to increase the power of delivery in speech.
• A sound made by, or resembling that made by, a musical instrument.
• 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.