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Webster 1913 Edition
Syncopation
Synˊco-pa′tion
,Noun.
1.
(Gram.)
The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.
2.
(Mus.)
The act of syncopating; a peculiar figure of rhythm, or rhythmical alteration, which consists in welding into one tone the second half of one beat with the first half of the beat which follows.
Webster 1828 Edition
Syncopation
SYNCOPA'TION
,Noun.
1.
In music, an interruption of the regular measure; an inversion of the order of notes; a prolonging of a note begun on the unaccented part of a bar, to the accented part of the next bar; also, a driving note, when a shorter note at the beginning of a measure is followed by two or more longer notes before another short note occurs, equal to that which occasioned the driving, to make the number even.Definition 2024
syncopation
syncopation
English
Noun
syncopation (usually uncountable, plural syncopations)
- (music) 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
- (phonology) The loss of sounds in the middle of a word.
Derived terms
- syncopational
- syncopationally
Related terms
Translations
rhythm quality
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phonology: loss of sounds
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