syncopation

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• Their movements have a likable jazzy syncopation, a bit of relaxed jive.
• It is in a comfortable key with limited chromaticism, employs only basic syncopation and has frequent rests.
• The syncopations available through this electro-extension were captivating, though Kim's performance was unfortunately marred by the multiple technical failures.
• Most impressive was her command over simultaneously singing complex vocal lines while maintaining some tricky syncopations and chording in her piano parts.
• The final theme now uses the fullest voicing, the widest range, the strongest and most repetitive syncopation, and the most adventurous harmony (both "Gladiolus" and "Pine Apple," for example, feature prominent shifts to the flatted submediant in their final themes). Archive 2008-07-01
• The company's style is contemporary Spanish dance, rather than pure flamenco - full of jazzy sinuosity, syncopation and angles.
• It's written in a kind of pastiche nineteenth-century style, complete with faux-Spanish exotic syncopations, melody and harmony (falling tetrachords, augmented seconds).
• The rhythmical stress of this syncopation is partly obtained by a marked silent fraction of a beat; frequently this silent fraction is filled in by a hand clap. God's Trombones Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
• James P. Johnson was the prime innovator of stride piano. He embellished basic ragtime syncopation, beginning with a general increase in tempo.
• The result is a conflict of rhythms, a kind of syncopation, which produces a very pleasing variant of the formal rhythm. The Principles of English Versification