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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 ]
The terms syncopation and syncopated step in dancing are used for two senses: The first definition matches the musical term : stepping on (or otherwise emphasizing) an unstressed beat . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For example, ballroom cha-cha-cha is a syncopated dance in this sense, because the basic step "breaks on two".
In phonology, syncope (/ ˈ s ɪ ŋ k ə p i /; from Ancient Greek: συγκοπή, romanized: sunkopḗ, lit. 'cutting up') is the loss of one or more sounds from the interior of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.
syncopation. A disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm often consisting of playing off of the main beat (i.e. playing on the "and" of every beat in a measure instead of on the beat) or emphasizing a beat other than the main beat. Syncopation is widely used in Latin music.
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. However, it is more prominent in blues, jazz, funk, disco, and Latin music.
Syncopation, a musical effect caused by off-beat or otherwise unexpected rhythms; Syncopation (dance), or syncopated step, a step on an unstressed beat; Suspension, in music; Syncope, a genus of microhylidae frogs; Syncopy Inc., a British film production company
So "off-beat" is a musical term, commonly applied to syncopation, that emphasizes the weak even beats of a bar, as opposed to the usual on-beat. This is a fundamental technique of African polyrhythm that transferred to popular western music.
Syncopation is a musical term for the stressing of a normally unstressed beat in a bar or the failure to sound a tone on an accented beat. It may also refer to: It may also refer to: Syncopation (dance) , dancing on unstressed beats, or improvised steps