syncopation

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

syncopate +‎ -ion

[edit] Noun

syncopation (usually uncountable; plural syncopations)

  1. (music) 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

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] Translations

a rhythm type
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