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In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. More simply, syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur". [ 1 ]
While the word ragtime was first known to be used in 1896, the term probably originates in the dance events hosted by plantation slaves known as “rags”. [4] The first recorded use of the term ragtime was by vaudeville musician Ben Harney who in 1896 used it to describe the piano music he played (which he had extracted from banjo and fiddle players).
William Joseph Mayerl [1] (31 May 1902 – 25 March 1959) was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre and became an acknowledged master of light music. Best known for his syncopated novelty piano solos, he wrote over 300 piano pieces, many of which were named after flowers and trees, including his ...
For example, in common time, also called 4/4, the most common metre in popular music, the stressed beats are one and three. If accented chords or notes are played on beats two or four, that creates syncopation, since the music is emphasizing the "weak" beats of the bar. Syncopation is used in classical music, popular music, and traditional music.
"Elite Syncopations" is a 1902 ragtime piano composition by American composer Scott Joplin, originally published in 1903 by John Stark & Son. [1] [2] The cover of the original sheet music prominently features a well-dressed man and lady sitting on a treble staff, looking down upon a cherub clutching a cymbal in each hand, [2] which reflects plainly the title of the piece.
The sheet music for "Dizzy Fingers" by Zez Confrey, one of the most popular of the novelty piano composers. Novelty piano is a genre of piano and novelty music that was popular during the 1920s. A successor to ragtime and an outgrowth of the piano roll music of the 1910s, it can be considered a pianistic cousin of jazz , which appeared around ...
Syncopation (dance), dancing on unstressed beats, or improvised steps; Syncopation, early American musical; Syncopation, American musical; Syncopation in algebra, a way of writing algebra that is not rhetorical, but also not fully symbolic "Syncopation", a 1926 violin and piano piece by Fritz Kreisler
[11] [16] [17] The earliest surviving record of the rag comes from the second known recording of the rag by the United States Marine Band from 1906. [19] Cartoon of a man playing Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag. While Joplin never made an audio recording, his playing is preserved on seven piano rolls for use in mechanical player pianos. All seven were ...