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
(Muzik) In music, syncopation is a stress on a normally unstressed beat, or a missing beat where a stressed one would normally be expected. Syncopation is used in many musical styles, including classical music, but it is fundamental in such styles as reggae, ragtime, rap, jump blues, jazz and often in dubstep. In the form of a back beat, syncopation is used in virtually all contemporary popular music
{n} in music an interruption of the regular measure or inverting the order of notes in a bar, connection of notes in different bars
In the quantitive verse of classical poetry, the suppression of one syllable in a metrical pattern, with its time value either replaced by a pause (like a musician's "rest") or by the additional lengthening of an adjoining long syllable
Syncopation is the quality that music has when the weak beats in a bar are stressed instead of the strong ones. a rhythm in a line of music in which the beats that are usually weak are emphasized
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
The displacement of beats or accents in a musical passage so that the strong beats become weak and vice versa
{i} act of emphasizing the beats or accents that are usually not accented (Music); omission of a letter or sound from the middle of a word (Grammar); change of meter (Poetry)
(phonology) the loss of sounds in the interior of a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle')
A style used in order to vary position of the stress on notes so as to avoid regular rhythm Syncopation is achieved by accenting a weak instead of a strong beat, by putting rests on strong beats, by holding on over strong beats, and by introducing a sudden change of time signature This style of composition was exploited to fullest capabilities by jazz musicians, often in improvisation
Hearing beats where you don't expect to hear them Syncopation shifts the strong beats to the weak beats Listen to Maple Leaf Rag to hear syncopation (See meter )