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  2. Syncopation (dance) - Wikipedia

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    When dancing to the disparate threads contained within the music, hands, torso, and head can independently move in relation to a thread, creating a fluidly syncopated performance of the music. The word "syncopation" is often used by dance teachers to mean improvised or rehearsed execution of step patterns that have more rhythmical nuances than ...

  3. Syncopation - Wikipedia

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    Syncopation is used in many musical styles, especially dance music. According to music producer Rick Snoman, "All dance music makes use of syncopation, and it's often a vital element that helps tie the whole track together". [3] Syncopation can also occur when a strong harmony is simultaneous with a weak beat, for instance, when a 7th-chord is ...

  4. Ragtime - Wikipedia

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    The music is intended to be representative of an African American dance contest in which the prize is a cake. Many early rags are cakewalks. Characteristic march – a march incorporating idiomatic touches (such as syncopation) supposedly characteristic of the race of their subject, which is usually African Americans.

  5. Tap dance technique - Wikipedia

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    Hoofers are tap dancers who dance only with their feet, making a louder, more grounded sound. This kind of tap dancing is also called "rhythm tap". Another aspect of tap dancing is improvisation. This can either be done with music and follow the beats provided or without musical accompaniment, otherwise known as a cappella dancing. Tap dancers ...

  6. Clave (rhythm) - Wikipedia

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    In Popular Cuban Music, Emilio Grenet defines in general terms how the duple-pulse clave pattern guides all members of the music ensemble. [21] An important Cuban contribution to this branch of music theory is the concept of the clave as a musical period, which has two rhythmically opposing halves. The first half is antecedent and moving, and ...

  7. Turning the beat around - Wikipedia

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    Turning the beat around, abbreviated as TBA in some music textbooks, is a form of temporary tactus or pulse (music) in popular electronic music and electronic dance music. [1] [2] [3] This includes forms of syncopation that issue a challenge to dancers to find the downbeat. [4]

  8. Syncope - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. Danzón - Wikipedia

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    Danzón is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba. [1] It is also an active musical form in Mexico and Puerto Rico.Written in 2 4 time, the danzón is a slow, formal partner dance, requiring set footwork around syncopated beats, and incorporating elegant pauses while the couples stand listening to virtuoso instrumental passages, as characteristically played by a charanga or típica ensemble.