Prosody

The term prosody may refer to one of the following:

Prosody in linguistics includes intonation and vocal stress in speech.
Prosody in poetry includes the scansion and metrical shape of the lines.
Prosody in music refers to the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung; this is particularly a function of rhythm and pitch, and is not to be confused with musical form.

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