0 a type of musical rhythm in which strong notes are not on the beat:
jazzy syncopations
1 musical rhythm in which the emphasis is not on beats that are normally emphasized
But neither the earthy ambivalence of the blues nor the elegant syncopation of ragtime is indigenous to New Orleans.
The crisp syncopation, reminiscent of a samba beat, belies the dark, almost despondent lyrics.
But the fun still came across, in music skipping in dotted rhythms and syncopations.
Any other alignment results in syncopation since there is a mismatch between the surface and underlying accents (31b).
The syncopation in the fifth foot is even more complex.
It results in only two true syncopations, but their impact is great.
The application of this syncopation rule is postsyntactic.
