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Offbeat musical rhythm
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syncopation
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In music , syncopation involves a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat . More simply, syncopation is a general term for "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "contraction of a word by omission of middle sounds," from Medieval Latin syncopationem (nominative syncopatio ) "a shortening or contraction," from past participle stem of syncopare "to shorten," also "to faint away, to swoon," from Late Latin syncope ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter 2 (context phonology English) The loss of sounds in the middle of a word.
Usage examples of syncopation.
However, syncopation of chords is not unknown and, for example, occurs frequently in salsa music, which is a strongly syncopated genre of music.
In the time it took me to walk the hundred meters back, the syncopation clamping itself deeper into my walk, I caught sight of the scientist, the god of the scientist.
There is a sour rhythm in the fellow and he will beat a pretty syncopation on them if the hurdy-gurdy will but stick to marching time.
Nepalese Sherpas had come out from their hidey-hole and were doing a vigorous display of acrobatics, tumbling and diving in syncopation over one another to the delight of the crowd.
I must have heard it a thousand times, but suddenly it had a unique syncopation all its own.
Still, the blazing fireflowers brought ecstasy to the Point and Counterpoint, causing them to shift into their own frenzied syncopation.
From the corner of her eye, Brianna saw their mouths opening and closing in syncopation, and wanted to laugh, but instead followed her mother to the bedside.
Ahead, the road curved and bent, twisting gently through fields and past villages, as the horses clopped through the dark, the rhythm of their hooves always in awkward syncopation.
Every beat pushed a pulse of pain through his clubbed skull, and in sickening syncopation, the rag in his mouth seemed to throb like a living thing, triggering his gag reflex more than once.
Has any fellow, of the dime a dozen type, it might with some profit some dull evening quietly be hinted--has any usual sort of ornery josser, flatchested fortyish, faintly flatulent and given to ratiocination by syncopation in the elucidation of complications,of his greatest Fung Yang dynasdescendanced,only another the son of, in fact, ever looked sufficiently longly at a quite everydaylooking stamped addressed envelope?
In the darkness he was soothed by the soft syncopations of their breathing, Desie's and McGuinn's, but he didn't fall asleep.
For those few minutes of time as the wire edge modulated to a minor key and as the rhythm and syncopation caught, slipped and reengaged like a trio on a trapeze, there was only me and Adem and Mozart alive in that cruel, dead, lonely place.