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syncopation

[ sing-kuh-pey-shuhn, sin- ]

noun

  1. Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
  2. something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated. syncopated.
  3. Also called counterpoint, Prosody. the 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-dark of the wood's intricacies.
  4. Grammar. syncope.


syncopation

/ ˌɪŋəˈɪʃə /

noun

  1. music
    1. the displacement of the usual rhythmic accent away from a strong beat onto a weak beat
    2. a note, beat, rhythm, etc, produced by syncopation
  2. another word for syncope
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ԴDzȴ··貹tDz noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of syncopation1

1525–35; < Medieval Latin ԳDZپō- (stem of ԳDZپō ), equivalent to Late Latin ԳDZ ( us ) ( syncopate ) + -ō- -ion
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The production is crystal clear, with rumbling bass, percolating syncopation and lovely acoustic guitars in the bridge.

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“Training Season,” her demand for a partner who already knows “how to love me right,” has tickling guitar syncopations and girl-group harmonies popping out of nowhere.

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It includes “On Lamp,” an undulating, not-quite-ambient piece that threads a wandering, slow-motion melody through a stereo dialogue of acoustic guitars and subdued tom-tom syncopations, like a glimpse of a distant caravan.

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They merge Frank Stella’s hard-edged syncopation with Southern California’s Finish Fetish movement, resulting in lustrous surfaces with an electric hum and smooth cast, like Everlasting Gobstoppers dipped in car paint.

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And then there is the rush created by Wainaina’s language, which moves to its own syncopation.

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