syncopation
[ sing-kuh-pey-shuhn, sin- ]
/ ˌsɪŋ kəˈpeɪ ʃən, ˌsɪn- /
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noun
Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated.
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.
Grammar. syncope.
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Origin of syncopation
OTHER WORDS FROM syncopation
non·syn·co·pa·tion, nounWords nearby syncopation
synclonus, Syncom, syncopal, syncopate, syncopated, syncopation, syncope, syncopic, syncretic, syncretism, syncretize
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syncopation
/ (ˌsɪŋkəˈpeɪʃən) /
noun
music
- the displacement of the usual rhythmic accent away from a strong beat onto a weak beat
- a note, beat, rhythm, etc, produced by syncopation
another word for syncope (def. 2)
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