syncopation
/sing-kuh-pey-shuhn, sin-/US // ˌsɪŋ kəˈpeɪ ʃən, ˌsɪn- //UK // (ˌsɪŋkəˈpeɪʃən) //
合拍性,同步性,切分音,切分音符
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats.
- : something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated.
- : Also called counterpoint, counterpoint rhythm. Prosody. the use of rhetorical stress at variance with the metrical stress of a line of verse, as the stress on and and of in Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise/The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies.
- : Grammar. syncope.
Examples
You would need to go back to the 19th century to find rhythms in popular music with so little syncopation.
The result is an effect of syncopation which is peculiarly forceful.
The purpose of the time step is to get the syncopation into the dancing step, and establish the "tempo" of the dance.
He moved slowly, painfully, one leg striking the pavement in syncopation, for it was sadly crippled by disease.
The rhythm may be said to be a sort of spite-rhythm, very decisive in most cases, but most of the time in syncopation.
Suggested by the poster commending a recent Revue as "the last word in syncopation."
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