'syncopation' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to a musical technique where the emphasis or accent is placed on an unexpected beat or note, creating a sense of rhythmic tension and interest. One could use the word 'syncopation' in the following sentence: "The jazz band's performance was exceptional, with the drummer's expert use of syncopation adding a unique and energetic element to their music."
Note the displaced kick and snare in the third bar, and the subsequent syncopation of the fourth.NWA Straight Outta Compton (Island, 1988)(Warning: riddled with profanities, violent imagery and general unpleasantness).In 1986 "Amen, Brother" was selected for "Ultimate Breaks and Beats", a compilation of easy-to-sample tracks aimed at hip-hop DJs and producers.
111, she dances an assortment of lissom steps, marvellously shedding shoes and socks as the Beethoven famously shifts from solemnity to syncopation.
In 1938, the cultural bureaucracy even organised a show to denounce jazz music, not least because it featured such "un-German" things as saxophones and syncopation.
"When it comes to feelings, I'm always in syncopation with others," Chopin lamented.The only exception was a volatile affair with George Sand, a domineering, chain-smoking French novelist five years his senior, which began hesitantly in 1838.
Intermezzo melodies abound in ornaments, sudden accents, syncopation (displaced accents), and playful leaps reflecting the text declamation and lack the broad, spun-out arch and driving rhythm of typical Baroque melodies.
To express these feelings musically, blues performers use vocal techniques such as melisma (sustaining a single syllable across several pitches), rhythmic techniques such as syncopation, and instrumental techniques such as "choking" or bending guitar strings on the guitar neck.
The third movement is now always a scherzo (although not always so named), not a minuet, with frequent use of unexpected accents and syncopation.
Moving to New York City in 1907, Joplin wrote an instruction book, The School of Ragtime, outlining his complex bass patterns, sporadic syncopation, stop-time breaks, and harmonic ideas, which were widely imitated.
Regular implied accents may be temporarily displaced through the process known as syncopation.
The language of ragtime and early jazz, with its rhythmic syncopation and varying degrees of harmonic innovation within a common musical vernacular, brought the first new element to the idiom of musical theatre (in musical comedy) since the emergence of national folk characteristics in 19th-century Europe.
The music, in 4/4 time, has an insistent syncopation.
