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Syncopation   /sˈɪŋkəpˌeɪʃən/   Listen
Syncopation

noun
1.
(phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in 'fo'c'sle' for 'forecastle').  Synonym: syncope.
2.
A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat.
3.
Music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm.





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"Syncopation" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the same as the second, except that the last note of the measure is tied to the first note of the next, forming a syncopation. As in the second species, the first note of the counterpoint should form a unison, octave or fifth, and when the counterpoint begins on the second half it may ...
— A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons • Friedrich J. Lehmann


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