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n. The intonation of a sentence, codified by marks which are read as sequences of musical pitches.

n. A chanting; recitation or reading with musical modulations.

n. A chanting, intoning, or recitation in a half-singing style: especially used in Jewish synagogues. Also spelled cantilation.

n. liturgical chanting

"To the comment that the Orientalist composer's intoxicating minor mode—based on what is called the ahava-rabba mode in Hebrew cantillation and klezmer music—is virtually the same as the mode Liszt called the "Hungarian Minor" in his rhapsodies, Mr. Botstein says that "many scholars have pointed out that the same musical gestures end up as ethnic signals for any number of cultures.""

chanting    intonation   

chanting    trope