nonsyncopation
kəˈpeɪ 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.
3.
Also called counterpoint, counterpoint rhythm. 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.
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| —n | |
| 1. | music |
| a. the displacement of the usual rhythmic accent away from a strong beat onto a weak beat | |
| b. a note, beat, rhythm, etc, produced by syncopation | |
| 2. | another word for syncope |
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Word Origin & History
syncopation
1532, "contraction of a word by omission of middle sounds," from M.L. syncopationem (nom. syncopatio) "a shortening or contraction," from syncopare "to shorten," also "to faint away, to swoon," from L.L. syncope (see syncope). Musical sense is attested from 1597.
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