1) Articulation 2) Dance technique 3) Feature of many jazz melodies 4) Syncope
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1) Ragtime
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a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of downbeat rhythm with emphasis on the sub-division or up-beat, e.g. in Ragtime music.
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In music, syncopation involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. More simply, syncopation is a general term for `a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm`: a `placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn`t normally occur.` Syncop...
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[dance] The terms syncopation and syncopated step in dancing are used in two senses: Many dance teachers criticize the use of the term `syncopation` and abandon it in favour of the term `double-time`. This is most likely due to a convenience in similarity, and/or a misunderstanding of the rhythmic concept. Dance syncopation often matches mu...
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• (n.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows. • (n.) The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.Syncopation: w...
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in music, the displacement of regular accents associated with given metrical patterns, resulting in a disruption of the listener`s expectations and ... [3 related articles]
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A rhythm emphasising offbeats
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a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of downbeat rhythm with emphasis on the sub-division or up-beat, e.g. in Ragtime music.
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The use of syncope. See below.
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Syn`co·pa'tion noun 1. (Gram.) The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.
2. (Mus.) The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one...
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A musical term adopted by dancers to describe cutting the beat, or stepping on the half-beat.
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In music syncopation is a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.
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a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm.
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Rhythmic patterns with unexpected accents. Syncopation is generally achieved by shifting the musical accent from a strong beat to a weak one. This results in an irregular feel to the rhythm.
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a temporary shifting of the accent in music so that the stress falls between the strong beats.
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The process of displacing 'expected' beats by anticipation or delay of one-half a beat. The natural melodic accent which would fall, in 'square' music, on the beat, is thus heard on the off-beat. This adds a flavor of ambiguity as to where the beat is (not an actual ambiguity, only a flavor).
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a play on rhythmic and metrical expectations such as giving a silence where a stressed note is expected or stressing a normally weak beat. Used extensively in the fourteenth century.
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When a beat is stressed which normally isn`t, for example in 4/4, beats 2 and 4.
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noun a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
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In music, the rhythmic effect of moving the accent on to a beat that is normally unaccented
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a rhythmic device in which the normal accents of the measure are displaced by accenting weak beats, rests on strong beats, or tying notes over from a weak to a strong beat.
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a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats. · something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated. · Also calledthe use of rhetorical stress at variance with the metrical stress of a line of verse, as the stress on and and of in Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise/The wine-d...
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a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
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