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But neither the earthy ambivalence of the blues nor the elegant syncopation of ragtime is indigenous to New Orleans.
Litton put a nice, dancey bounce on Handel's syncopations.
The crisp syncopation, reminiscent of a samba beat, belies the dark, almost despondent lyrics.
But the fun still came across, in music skipping in dotted rhythms and syncopations.

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syncopation | American Dictionary

syncopation
noun[ U ]
us/ˌsɪŋ·kəˈpeɪ·ʃən/
music
musical rhythm in which the emphasis is not on beats that are normally emphasized

Examples of syncopation

syncopation
Any other alignment results in syncopation since there is a mismatch between the surface and underlying accents (31b).
The syncopation in the fifth foot is even more complex.
It results in only two true syncopations, but their impact is great.
The application of this syncopation rule is postsyntactic.
In meters with non-isochronous rhythm (section 5.3), syncopation only occurs in the metrical phrase with -- tetramoraic feet.
It also points to the prominence of syncopation in rock music.
Overwhelmingly, syncopation across foot boundaries occurs between the first and second feet, and/or the third - and the fourth feet.
This is a meter composed entirely of tetramoraic feet, rendered complex by syncopation and anacrusis.
The caesura positions mark syncopation achieved by specifying strong nodes as empty.
Perhaps too much syncopation from the rhythm section infringed on 'danceability'.
Singing in a style complementing the tonality, with a large amount of syncopation.
How would knowledge of the multi-layering of polyrhythms within differing cultural contexts, and diversely practised syncopation, for example, translate into practice in the music classroom?
Example 1 gives just one sample of the prominent role syncopation plays in rock music.
The main subject's increasingly edgy syncopations coalesced into a fully-fledged tango in the energetically playful development section.
However, other unresolved nonchord-tones discussed here cannot plausibly be 'explained away' as syncopations.
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