In its first two years the Intonation Music Festival helped prove that Chicago could be a viable host city for large nonmainstream concerts–in fact it might’ve been a little too successful. The ...

Short musical fragments consisting of a melody part and a synchronous bass part were mistuned in various ways and in various degrees. Mistuning was applied to the harmonic intervals between ...

When a word is being emphasized upon during speech, we tend to raise our pitch. Studies of voice modulation and intonations have shown that the pitch can change the meaning of the word. So, it is not ...

This paper identifies modern Yiddish intonation patterns for three different semantic structures and contends that they derive from modern (Ashkenazic) talmudic chant. An examination of the ...

This phrase was introduced by an outside expert in 1975 in a newspaper article that pointed out the unnaturalness of intonation used by NHK announcers. This commentary triggered an argument of ...