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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 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
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.
Syncope ((syncope ⓘ), commonly known as fainting or passing out, is a loss of consciousness and muscle strength characterized by a fast onset, short duration, and spontaneous recovery. [1]
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.
See Syncopation. hervortretend (Ger.) Prominent, pronounced hold, see fermata homophony A musical texture with one voice (or melody line) accompanied by subordinate chords; also used as an adjective (homophonic). Compare with polyphony, in which several independent voices or melody lines are performed at the same time. hook