Associations to the word «Syncopation»

Wiktionary

SYNCOPATION, noun. (music) 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
SYNCOPATION, noun. (phonology) The loss of sounds in the middle of a word.

Dictionary definition

SYNCOPATION, noun. (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle').
SYNCOPATION, noun. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat.
SYNCOPATION, noun. Music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm.

Wise words

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