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music-glossary: syncopation

 
 1.299 syncopation
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 ES: síncopa, I: sincope, F: syncope, D: Synkope, NL: syncope, DK:
 synkope, S: synkop, FI: synkooppi.
 
DONTPRINTYET     Any deliberate upsetting of the normal pulse of meter, *noteDONTPRINTYET     Any deliberate upsetting of the normal pulse of meter, 
 accent, and rhythm.  The occidental system of musical rhythm
 rests upon the grouping of equal beats into groups of two or three, with
 a regularly recurrent accent on the first beat of each group.  Any
 deviation from this scheme is felt as a disturbance or contradiction
 between the underlaying (normal) pulse and the actual (abnormal) rhythm.
 
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