syncopation

[ US /ˈsɪŋkəˌpeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /sˌɪnkəpˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm
  2. a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat
  3. (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
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How To Use syncopation In A Sentence

  • Their movements have a likable jazzy syncopation, a bit of relaxed jive.
  • With its syncopations and constantly changing time signatures, the composition is a rare hybrid that sounds familiar in places and then twists and turns into something wholly original.
  • The metronome serves as an invaluable tool for making sure the inner pulse is steady, especially after syncopations and unexpected rests.
  • They then created the mambo rhythm by blending an African-influenced syncopation of the danzon (a Cuban musical and dance form) with North American instrumentation and harmony elements of Son.
  • She turned left on to Princes Street as the smirring rain began to get heavier, drumming the roof and the windscreen in loud syncopation, occasionally intensified by random gusts of wind. Boiling a Frog
  • In the romanza, syncopation and imitation are much relied on, though the general atmosphere is that of a nocturne, a trio of dance-like manner breaking in. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
  • There had been some flaccid rubatos in the preceding Allegro Assai and there were some underplayed syncopations in the Minuet and Trio but the cheer it received was well earned.
  • There are no breaks, no fills, little syncopation, and the beats rarely drop out.
  • Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.
  • A little clearing formed in the middle of the room, and Bob fiddled his way to it, then played and stomped his feet in syncopation. METAPLANETARY
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