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Syncopation   /sˈɪŋkəpˌeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Syncopation  n.  
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 tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.





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"Syncopation" Quotes from Famous Books



... or sung slowly and softly, in the manner of lustful, insinuating music. Scornfully, gaily The bandmaster sways, Changing the strain That the wild band plays. With a red and royal intoxication, A tangle of sounds And a syncopation, Sweeping and bending From side to side, Master of dreams, With a peacock pride. A lord of the delicate flowers of delight He drives compunction Back through the night. Dreams he's a soldier Plumed ...
— The Congo and Other Poems • Vachel Lindsay
... do not co-exist, and where merely syncopations are introduced. The conductor, dividing the bar by the number of accents he finds contained in it, then destroys (for all the auditors who see him) the effect of syncopation; and substitutes a mere change of time for a play of rhythm of the most bewitching interest. If the accents are marked, instead of the beats, in the following passage from Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, we ...
— The Orchestral Conductor - Theory of His Art • Hector Berlioz


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