Syncopation

About this sound Play ( help · info ) Though syncopation may be highly complex, dense or complex looking rhythms often contain no syncopation.

It's a performance that combines syncopation and dance.

Riggs has taken from 10 CDs worth of material to stuff this box to overflowing with action-packed charts, propulsive soloing, swoon-worthy melodies and complex harmonic structures, not to mention surprising syncopation.

About this sound Play ( help · info ) Syncopation can also occur when a strong harmony is placed on a weak beat, for instance when a 7th-chord is placed on the second beat of main measure or a dominant is placed at the fourth beat of a main measure.

After The Syncopation Idea closed, Bing and Al obtained work in the Will Morrissey Music Hall Revue which must have been fascinating if insecure.

Also it is important to note that a dissonant interval is allowed on beat 1 because of the syncopation created by the suspension.

Another way of "breaking the routine" of the dance is syncopation (the second meaning, making more steps than required by the standard description of the dance pattern).

Compared to other forms of rock, syncopation is much less the rule.

His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theatre tradition.

In turn, European-American minstrel show performers in blackface popularized the music internationally, combining syncopation with European harmonic accompaniment.

Jazz fusion often uses mixed meters, odd time signatures, syncopation, complex chords and harmonies.

Many pieces have influences from jazz and Western music, using syncopation and triple time.

Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer, p.33.

Rhumboogie, it's Harlem's new creation with the Cuban syncopation, it's the killer!

She introduced them to her show business contacts and the Fanchon and Marco Time Agency hired them for thirteen weeks to take part in a revue called The Syncopation Idea, starting at the Boulevard Theater in Los Angeles and then on the Loew's circuit.

So, in a sense, syncopation may be perceived as mild hijacking.

Syncopation has been an important element of European musical composition since at least the Middle Ages.

The lack of emphatic syncopation led punk dance to "deviant" forms.

These forerunners of the new music (which would later be termed bebop or bop—although Parker himself never used the term, feeling it demeaned the music) began exploring advanced harmonies, complex syncopation, altered chords and chord substitutions.