Explore Syncopation through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like syncope or articulation. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Syncopation meaning
- The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
- The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.
Synonyms of Syncopation
Using Syncopation
- The main meaning on this page is: The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof. | The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.
- Useful related words include: syncope, articulation, rhythm, beat.
- In the example corpus, syncopation often appears in combinations such as: syncopation and, the syncopation, syncopation may.
Context around Syncopation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Syncopation
- In this selection, "syncopation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, though, combines, surprising, may, idea and created stand out and add context to how "syncopation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a sense syncopation may be and after the syncopation idea closed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "syncopation" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with syncopation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It's a performance that combines syncopation and dance. (9 words)
Progressive Steps to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer, p.33. (10 words)
So, in a sense, syncopation may be perceived as mild hijacking. (11 words)
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. (48 words)
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. (45 words)
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. (37 words)
Rhumboogie, it's Harlem's new creation with the Cuban syncopation, it's the killer! (15 words)
Example sentences (19)
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.
Common combinations with syncopation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: