syncopation
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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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Etymonline
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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Encyclopedia Britannica
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syncopation
in music, the displacement of regular accents associated with given metrical patterns, resulting in a disruption of the listener's expectations and the arousal of a desire for the reestablishment of metric normality; hence the characteristic "forward drive" of highly syncopated music. Syncopation may be effected by accenting normally weak beats in a measure, by resting on a normal accented beat, or by tying over a note to the next measure
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Example sentences
Parlous is a delicious example of linguistic syncopation.
The musicians were all jazz-based improvisers, but this music took them into a zone bereft of riffing and syncopation.
He also plays at ragtime festivals, and gives concerts almost anywhere lovers of syncopation gather.
He stations himself in a corner next to a giant garbage can, swiveling his hips and clapping in syncopation.
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