Much jazz music uses syncopation. From LearnThat.org.
When the syncopation is a suspension or retardation, it is treated the same as in harmony. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons] Reference
The result is a conflict of rhythms, a kind of syncopation, which produces a very pleasing variant of the formal rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Is it about syncopation, blue notes, improvisation?. From Wordnik.com. [No Comment?] Reference
On this day, Mars and Uranus are in perfect syncopation. From Wordnik.com. [absentia Diary Entry] Reference
In verse, coincidence preponderates; in prose, syncopation. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
She could hear his heart beating in syncopation with hers. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Called Jesse]
Learn many styles of bass and syncopation -- trick endings. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Let any one try to realize a simple measure in syncopation. From Wordnik.com. [The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze] Reference
His heart pounded in syncopation with his throbbing headache. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
The light ones popped all around, sporadically, in syncopation. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
A most startling syncopation is ventured by Milton in Samson Agonistes. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
(Of course syncopation alone does not explain the rhythm of this line.). From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
There is a rhythm to the public debate, it has a flow and a syncopation. From Wordnik.com. [Allison Silver: Why Editing an Opinion Section is Not a Quirky Stunt] Reference
"Everything had an intensity and a syncopation to it that was constructed.". From Wordnik.com. [A Rock and Roll Dinosaur Rolls On] Reference
They hovered close together, their sextupal wings humming an alien syncopation. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
He'll have a simple walking baseline and then do all the syncopation with verse. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Kornbluth: Bob Dylan's new 'Bootleg' CDs: More Range Than a Prius] Reference
On the program this week, blue notes, swung notes, syncopation and improvisation. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2009] Reference
He represented all of us to the world through improvisation, syncopation and soul. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President And First Lady At Millennium Event] Reference
He put just a little syncopation in it, adding to the verve of the pres - entation. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
Now this process of coördination involves two activities, syncopation and substitution. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
United Nations — "Watch as the UN General Assembly erupts with euphoria and syncopation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cubicle Queue: New York 400 Years Ago, Jack Kerouac and Sarah Silverman] Reference
Our sense of syncopation, though, is a musical quality that we do share with other species. From Wordnik.com. [Magic Flute: Primal Find Sings of Music's Mystery] Reference
The taps flew briskly, different rhythms, slow at first, a quick rattle, then a steady syncopation. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
(Soundbite of song, "St. Louis Blues") Mr. ROSE: You have to get the syncopation right, which is really hard. From Wordnik.com. [Remembering Dr. Ragtime: Guitarist Jack Rose] Reference
The dreamy waltz had given way to the syncopation of a fox-trot, yet neither was aware of the passing minutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Mr. ERIC KRASNO (Soulive): It's got to have that -- the backbeat, the funk backbeat and syncopation and that feel. From Wordnik.com. [Soulive: Mixing It Up with Jazz and Funk] Reference
In Milton's ear, however, and in ours if we do not resist, there is a subtle syncopation of four beats against five. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
The purpose of the time step is to get the syncopation into the dancing step, and establish the "tempo" of the dance. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession] Reference
Their music was not at all bad -- not to my taste, of course, but the notes were accurate and the syncopation precise. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
Since i was the bass player (and one of the creative forces in that band) I worked into our songs a lot of syncopation. From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "China Cat Sunflower"] Reference
Its smooth syncopation and graceful lyricism made it into a standard, one of the most recorded and performed songs of all time. From Wordnik.com. [Chris McGowan: Blame It on the Bossa Nova: 50 Years of Sublime Music] Reference
"Some people will say it can only be to jazz music, 1900 to 1945, and it has to be a certain rhythm or syncopation," says Bibik. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking the Rules] Reference
In a remote corner of his mind the ticking of his watch sounded as a cold, measured rhythm, a metronome with delusions of syncopation. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
'King of Pain' features the dense multitracking effects and familiar neo-reggae syncopation that the Police have pretty much outgrown. From Wordnik.com. [Synchronicity] Reference
These exercises in syncopation are perhaps some of the most difficult in the method, as they demand an extraordinary control of inhibition. From Wordnik.com. [The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze] Reference
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