ALL meanings of syncopation
syn·co·pa·tion
S s - noun syncopation Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats. 1
- noun syncopation something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated. 1
- noun syncopation Also called counterpoint, counterpoint rhythm. Prosody. the use of rhetorical stress at variance with the metrical stress of a line of verse, as the stress on and and of in Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise/The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies. 1
- noun syncopation Grammar. syncope. 1
- noun syncopation music: type of rhythm 1
- variable noun syncopation Syncopation is the quality that music has when the weak beats in a bar are stressed instead of the strong ones. 0
- noun syncopation the displacement of the usual rhythmic accent away from a strong beat onto a weak beat 0
- noun syncopation a note, beat, rhythm, etc, produced by syncopation 0
- noun syncopation a syncopating or being syncopated 0
- noun syncopation syncopated music, a syncopated rhythm, etc. 0
- abbreviation SYNCOPATION syncope 0