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Tone :: Tone (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion..

Accentuation :: Accentuation (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.

Oxytone :: Oxytone (n.) A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.

Metre :: Metre (n.) Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter..

Accent :: Accent (n.) A word; a significant ton.

Staccato :: Staccato (a.) Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic..

Accent :: Accent (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

Proparoxytone :: Proparoxytone (n.) A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.

Dunnock :: Dunnock (a.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.

Foot :: Foot (n.) A combination of syllables consisting a metrical element of a verse, the syllables being formerly distinguished by their quantity or length, but in modern poetry by the accent..

Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent..

Accent :: Accent (v. t.) To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.

Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable..

Atonic :: Atonic (n.) A word that has no accent.

Accented :: Accented (imp. & p. p.) of Accen.

Mazurka :: Mazurka (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat..

Hexameter :: Hexameter (n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be either dactyls or spondees, the fifth must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity..

Accentuate :: Accentuate (v. t.) To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.

Tilde :: Tilde (n.) The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, ?, /], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y..

Accent :: Accent (n.) expressions in general; speech.

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