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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]
Sounds may be removed from the interior of a word as a rhetorical or poetic device: for embellishment or for the sake of the meter. Latin commōverat > poetic commōrat ("he had moved") English hastening > poetic hast'ning; English heaven > poetic heav'n; English over > poetic o'er; English ever > poetic e'er, often confused with ere ("before")
One or "a" (indefinite article), as exemplified in the following entries un poco or un peu (Fr.) A little una corda One string (i.e., in piano music, depressing the soft pedal, which alters and reduces the volume of the sound). For most notes in modern pianos, this results in the hammer striking two strings rather than three.
4 time with a predominant left-hand pattern of bass notes on strong beats (beats 1 and 3) and chords on weak beats (beat 2 and 4) accompanying a syncopated melody in the right hand. According to some sources the name "ragtime" may come from the "ragged or syncopated rhythm" of the right hand. [1] A rag written in 3 4 time is a "ragtime waltz".
Syncope (phonology), the loss of one or more sounds, particularly an unstressed vowel, from the interior of a word; 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
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: Syncopation (dance), dancing on unstressed beats, or improvised steps; Syncopation, early American musical; Syncopation, American musical
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The cuica creates a unique sound, which can sometimes sound like a human voice. Timbal, a long cone-like drum that is used to produce both high & low tones in the ensemble. It is usually played with hands and creates a similar timbre as the West African Djembé. Pandeiro, similar to a tambourine and played sometimes elaborately with the hand ...