| 单词 | syncopate |
| 例句 | Notice that the syncopated notes in the melody come on the second and fourth quarters of the beat, essentially alternating with the strong eighth-note pattern laid down in the accompaniment. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The Dancing Fan was still dancing, its rubber feet beating out the same syncopated Persian rhythm I’d been listening to all night, but that wasn’t what woke me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z His heart juddered and syncopated inside his chest, and if he could have screamed, he would. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The swirl of syncopated rhythms sticks with me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Music came in and out of my ears, a syncopated half song that was familiar and foreign at the same time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z An abyss opens under the syncopated guitar picking and demurely isolated vocals of Bonzie — Nina Ferraro — as she captures a quintessential quarantine mood. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z The track meshes the 4/4 thump and four-chord cycle of international dance music with the syncopated percussion of South African kwaito and crucially, the lilt and tickle of countermelodies from African guitars. The Playlist: Mavis Staples Warns of Deadly Force, and 9 More New Songs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z But when it was really firing hot, it grew rapid and funky with machinelike syncopated rapping against the drums — sort of after the model of “Jigga What, Jigga Who” on Jay-Z’s old “Unplugged” record. ArtsBeat: A Lot of Jazz. Many More People. 2011-01-08T22:14:32Z Her voice is airy and nonchalantly assured as it glides through meshes of percussion, programming and syncopated guitars — productions that carry hints of Brazilian tradition into vertiginous electronic spaces. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “Protest Song,” with Ms. Haines upfront, braids together an elaborate stereo counterpoint of guitars, voices and syncopated beats, then gallops into a big shared chorus. Broken Social Scene Pits Creativity Against Collapse on ‘Hug of Thunder’ 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The old shoegaze sound returns in the verses, with guitar counterpoint swathed in reverb, but the intro and chorus punch out syncopated power chords, banging hard for attention in the here and now. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey Finds Love in a Hopeless Place 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Disco, which had started in black clubs and migrated to gay clubs, had a strong syncopated beat that everybody could move to. As Studio 54 Boogies to Brooklyn, Its Denizens Look Back in Wonder 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Not long after, Europe brought his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra — and the syncopated styles of Black American composers — to Carnegie Hall. Jason Moran Pays Tribute to an Early Jazz Ancestor 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z It begins with a simple four-note figure that rises and then falls into a gently pulsing, syncopated carpet of sound. Music Review: ‘Gran Partita,’ by St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble 2012-09-23T21:16:05Z The connection to Bulgaria in the other works, which tended toward stylish competence — syncopated point-work, light jumps, linked arms — had more to do with dancers. Kathryn Posin’s Bulgarian Program 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Before that taped episode, the singer Imani Uzuri chanted “1, 2, 3, 4” in steady, syncopated patterns over the rollicking keyboard of “Blue” Gene Tyranny. Music Review: ?That Morning Thing? at the Kitchen for Performa 11 - Review 2011-11-23T23:38:54Z It had a clipped, precise, syncopated, pin-striped-suit quality, not usually swooping or weeping or sliding. B. B. King’s Inimitable Sound 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Members of Ensemble Pi performed it and Mr. Schuller’s “On Light Wings,” for piano quartet, dominated in sections by lively syncopated rhythms. Music Review: Eight Hours of Songs, and Uncounted Influences 2011-02-22T22:18:37Z Mr. Gout favors restless camerawork and syncopated editing, which is both engaging and somewhat superficial. ‘Days of Grace,’ a Mexican Film by Everardo Gout 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The hypnotic, syncopated sound of the bouncing ball. The City Game? 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z “In the course of this volume — the kind to which readers return and return — he downshifts from scary memories into widely useful syncopated advice.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z His voice could convey flirtatiousness, amusement, heartache or wily agility, and his syncopated phrasing was as close to jazz as to traditional blues, leaping easily into falsetto or letting loose a vulpine howl. Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington, New Orleans Musical Luminary, Dies at 79 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z A stretch in the first movement featured a quintuple pulse overlaid by syncopated triplets; the second half began in free tempo but then lurched in another asymmetrical groove. 2010-01-15T04:23:00Z Many moments in the video contain both still, tableau-like images and hypnotic, syncopated movements. The Profound Power of the New Solange Videos 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z “Play on Words” and “Bownze” are syncopated knockouts, and the title track moves from a cool idyll to a combustive clamor. Critic’s Notebook: Jeff Ballard and Other Jazz Drummers Step Out Front 2014-02-05T23:02:56Z The big ensembles, performed at a lively clip, reveal syncopated rhythms that often get lost in productions by other companies. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z He played off the beat, complementing Richards' very syncopated, riff-driven guitar style. How Rolling Stones' Charlie Watts infused one of the greatest rock 'n' roll bands with a little jazz 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z The usual Sorkinian rhythms — walk and talk; stand and shout; quip and parry — are sped up and syncopated by Mr. Boyle’s tireless kineticism. Review: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Apple’s Visionary C.E.O. Dissected 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z But when they’re outdoors, at least, the color syncopates the seams. For David Smith, Sculptor and Painter, a Happy Equilibrium in White 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z For much of the concert, King Crimson was a fearsome rhythmic juggernaut, flaunting odd meters and whipsawing between slow, bruising riffs and pinging, syncopated volleys in pieces like “Level Five” and “The ConstruKction of Light.” King Crimson Plays at the Best Buy Theater 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Having trained at the School of American Ballet in the Balanchine style, which emphasizes speed, vigorous athleticism and syncopated musicality, Bross had to adapt to the specificities of Ashton's style. Los Angeles Ballet's 'Romeo and Juliet' a happy alliance between dance families 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z The movement here was syncopated and specific, with the dancers’ spines synchronously melting into ooze and their arms crossing and uncrossing like in a game of cat’s cradle. Abraham.In.Motion’s choreography is ambitious, yes, but rightly so They spun in slow arcs to a syncopated beat, in unceasing ripples of action. Review | Ronald K. Brown/Evidence rises to a spiritual level in performance at the Kennedy Center 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z On the track “Beat Goes On,” a feast that is worthy of its namesake, Lacy’s spaced-out vocals intertwine with intricately syncopated performances by Smith and Paige II, and Martians’s beeping synths. Review: The Serene, Funk-Drenched Sound of the Internet’s “Hive Mind” 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Less, however, has been said of how Mr. Osborne, whose syncopated, lyrical playing was inspired by the jazz-derived solos of old-time fiddlers, broke new ground as a mandolinist. Bobby Osborne, Mandolinist Who Flouted Bluegrass Convention, Dies at 91 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z In this solo show, the performer Hershey Felder will step into the shoes and syncopated rhythms of the legendary songwriter. 7 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Martín Buscaglia, from Uruguay, made himself a one-man band with a looping machine, playfully syncopated guitar and slyly literate lyrics; one mentioned Stephen Hawking. Critic’s Notebook: Calle 13 at the Latin Alternative Music Conference 2012-07-15T22:22:21Z There is enough range just in the first movement to show off lyrical sensitivity, technical mastery and syncopated jive. Review: Slatkin, Thibaudet take Seattle Symphony audiences on a jazzy jaunt 2011-04-22T17:02:03Z The syncopated string bending of the intro led to an unforgettable argument between Mr. Berry and Keith Richards in the “Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll” documentary. 15 Essential Chuck Berry Songs 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In the final section the women gather close, stamping, clapping and singing in a syncopated chorus of support as individuals moved into the center of the semicircle for ecstatic solos. Dance Review: Sisters Standing Up to the Man 2011-04-29T21:21:24Z The sounds of Brazil dominate the music, and the choreography is inflected with syncopated rhythms and flirty hips. Pina Bausch's Tanztheater?Wuppertal: Agua 2010-08-29T20:31:00Z It's not simply underplayed but syncopated in the handling. Unexpected Lessons in Love by Bernardine Bishop – review 2013-01-21T08:00:01Z The instrumentation colors in the pensive songs of singer-guitarist Kyle Morton, avoiding preciousness by touching on Caribbean and South American rhythms, lush harmony vocals and syncopated handclaps. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z Ms. Dumakude recalled the moment when she introduced them to one particular song that included not only lyrics in Zulu but also complex syncopated rhythms. The Women of ‘I Sing for Freedom’ 2013-08-11T21:50:03Z An upright-bass line threads through a grid of handclaps, syncopated drum beats and keyboard blips. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z Black fiddlers played in a style that was more rhythmic, syncopated and African in character, and called the tunes “Negro jigs.” Joe Thompson Dies at 93; Fiddler of String Band Legacy 2012-03-02T03:08:25Z In some concerts, you could at times pick up slow counts of eight, divided into two and six, but the players or vocalists would seem free of that framework as they embellished and syncopated. Sattriya, Kathak and Bharatanatyam Dance at Drive East 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z In another piece, the band approximated a version of Ghanian hip-hop, with Camara rapping over syncopated talking drums. Concert review: Robert Plant at Taste of Chicago 2013-07-13T03:44:00Z He renders this poetic service over a typically unassuming, slightly syncopated foundation that changes course only when it modulates into a chorus that barely qualifies as one. The genius of Elbow, the band Coldplay wishes it could be 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z What is so enthralling about this novel is its syncopated riff of empathy as the perspective jumps around these participants — some peaceful, some violent, some determined, some incredulous. A novelist’s soul-searching rewind to the 1999 eruption on Seattle’s streets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Over clamoring, syncopated percussion, she and a corps of backing vocalists sing of festivals and celebrations, hard labor on cocoa farms and resilient love. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 66 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z In the final moments, the group converged in a lively flourish of syncopated folk-inflected choreography — a polite nod to the theme — and then clustered together. Review: At New York City Ballet, an Intriguing Glimpse of the Future 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z You need to delimit your options; it’s best to go uptempo and syncopated and bravura, with narrow grooves. Playlist: New CDs by Judith Berkson, Trash Talk and Others 2010-05-28T21:25:00Z “Swing Time” uses its extraordinary breadth and its syncopated structure to turn the issues of race and class in every direction. ‘Swing Time’: Zadie Smith’s sweeping novel about friendship, race and class 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. James’s characters, old and young, male and female, Jamaican and American, exhale their thoughts in language that is casually profane, and as kinetic and syncopated as music. Marlon James’s ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z A walking bass line, and then a swinging jazz trio, give Belafonte a backdrop for brash, syncopated, trumpet-like phrasing. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z He takes the reader through the most important ingredients of jazz, explaining, for instance, how “swing” is more than syncopated, finger-tapping rhythm. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Várjon caressed odd, syncopated chords in the lyrical opening movement, added ethereal touches within the heaven-storming march and masterfully built fugue-like passages, blooming from the depths of the keyboard, in the final Allegro. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z A contrasting section in minor key is spiked with syncopated accented notes in the piano that are almost maniacal. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Berlin’s writing is blunt, syncopated — almost offhandedly offering small, arresting details and pared-down images. Review | Two new books bring Lucia Berlin back to life 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z They’re usually built on plucked, syncopated patterns from her guitar or ukulele, threaded through with melodies that she sings barely above a whisper, often confiding her vulnerabilities. Dodie Can’t Resist Sharing. It’s Made Her Music Soar. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z All the while she sings, with raspy sweetness and syncopated precision. Brazil’s Outspoken Daniela Mercury Is a Swirl of Ideas and Songs 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The other guests had to be Pete Cooper's Appalachian band, Rattle on the Stovepipe, with their gorgeous, bluesy, syncopated old American sound. Fiddler on the yoof ? My son the 12-year-old fiddle prodigy 2011-03-31T22:00:00Z In one instance, Mr. Hagen’s left-hand bass line combined with Mr. Solomon’s timpani and plucked double-bass notes into a rough, syncopated line of balled-up power. Music Review: Unsuk Chin Celebrated in Composer Portrait at Miller Theater 2014-03-16T20:54:53Z Keeravani’s syncopated tune would go on to win the Oscar for best original song. Best and Worst Moments From the 2023 Oscars 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z The meter, mostly, is a syncopated and eccentric 5/4, though it shifts at whim; the attitude is terse and businesslike, but sisterly. Shawn Mendes and Tainy’s Summer Breeze, and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z His host assumed that his blackness naturally bestows such talent upon Cash who, following substantial pressure, brings the house down by repeating the “N”-word over and over again in syncopated cadence. Hollywood still loves a white savior: "Green Book" and the lazy, feel-good take on race 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Allen’s drumming propels five of the album’s nine tracks, spattering syncopated accents, quick little snare-drum rolls and hissing cymbals all around the central beat — and constantly striking sparks. Coldcut + Tony Allen and African Artists = Studio Electricity 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Scored for string instruments alone, sometimes played percussively, the 20-minute symphony shows heavy Turkish and Balkan influences, with bent tones, pungent harmonies and syncopated rhythms. Review: Fazil Say, Soloist, Composer and Even Conductor With Orpheus 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z The album’s watchwords are the refrain of “Your Reality,” a track that meshes syncopated, ambiguous synthesizer chords and a sighing string quartet: “Surreal but free — it’s your reality.” Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z And on “Rope,” a single from the band’s 2011 album, “Wasting Light,” Mr. Hawkins’s precisely syncopated work on the verses gives way to eruptions of fills. Taylor Hawkins, Foo Fighters’ Drummer, Dies at 50 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The Beninese guitar virtuoso and vocalist Lionel Loueke enjoys the support of a comfortable, loosely syncopated band on “The Journey,” his latest album. The Playlist: Lady Gaga Dives Into a Fresh Era, and 15 More New Songs 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In the 1950s, a group of young Brazilian musicians began to experiment with the samba beat, by adding syncopated patterns and making it slower. Blame it on ‘Jazz Samba’: Bossa nova craze started in D.C. The most successful sequences are the ones that find new ways of illustrating the meaning of a poem besides lingering on the face of the performer uttering purposefully syncopated and painstakingly intonated lines. ‘Summertime’ Review: Poetry and Motion in Los Angeles 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Starting with a busily syncopated drumbeat and feedback drawn from Mr. Dunn’s amplifier, it kept building momentum until the wave crested, and the tempo halved. Music Review: Tomahawk at the Best Buy Theater 2013-06-04T21:41:58Z What became known as the syncopated Scruggs picking style helped popularize the banjo in almost every genre of music. Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Banjo Player, Dies at 88; 2012-03-29T05:13:11Z The syncopated criss-crossing rhythms of Paparazzi might bring to mind an early drum machine, but there's an openness and freshness to the sound that comes from the way they play. Brandt Brauer Frick say you can get (slightly) jiggy with it 2011-08-04T21:30:03Z But he then demands “melancholy jazz,” “the spiritual syncopated,” and “gay, martial music.” “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z The band waited, adding its own amplifier hum, and then exploded, as if starting at the highest peak of a very long jam, syncopated drum rhythms rolling everywhere, guitar churning in precise juddering rhythm. Critic’s Notebook: I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival at Pier 36 2012-09-24T22:29:50Z Made mostly of copper rods and cherry-wood slats, the local artist’s creations offer variations on regular patterns, in the manner of syncopated rhythms or an ascending scale. Review | In the galleries: Simulated stone and neon artworks reflect the transience of life 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z "They stretch our ears to a new way of hearing, and they invest old words with newly syncopated life." Grammy winners, nominees honor hip-hop 2011-02-11T11:21:20Z The music materialized part by part: pinging guitar picking, syncopated bass, stuttering drums and vocal lines that threaded through the instruments as often as they claimed the foreground. Music Review: Pop Second-Guessing Itself, Building Up and Coming Apart 2010-10-03T22:19:00Z Dvorak was swept up at the time with enthusiasm for the syncopated rhythms and modal melodies of African-American and Native American music. Review: A Safe Start to Alan Gilbert’s Final Season With the Philharmonic 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z The crackling, syncopated dialogue and the plot, full of reversals and double crosses, owe an obvious debt to David Mamet’s profane fables of deal-making machismo. | 'Margin Call': ?Margin Call,? With Zachary Quinto - Review 2011-10-20T16:15:02Z It’s where the Puerto Rican Sharks and the White, blue-collar Jets pour all their resentments, defiance and cultural pride into a dance battle that’s inflamed by Leonard Bernstein’s Latin jazz and a fiercely syncopated mambo. With ‘West Side Story,’ choreographer Justin Peck brought dance into the Spielberg universe 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Here, the psychedelic sounds of the Doors, the Airplane and, above all, Hendrix are as crucial to the mix as the taut, relentlessly syncopated beat. Sean O'Hagan 2010-06-26T23:15:00Z “I took my index finger and ‘dum-dum-dum,’” she said, jabbing an imaginary keyboard and singing some syncopated low notes. Laura Mvula Set Her Sound Free. It Ended Up in the ’80s. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z It starts with the two guitars of Lloyd and Verlaine, separated in stereo, syncopated against each other; then, before anyone can get settled, Fred Smith’s bass and Billy Ficca’s drums forcibly move the downbeat. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z A fascinating deep-dive into how vast teams of talented people channel their knowledge of melody, diminished chords and syncopated snares into making truly terrible slush pop. The 50 best podcasts of 2018 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Weston began it with sturm-und-drang, glided into traipsing free lines that he underpinned with a syncopated beat, then settled into lush accompaniment when Harper began his stately, soulful line in a slate-hard tone. ‘Jazz Masters’ honor genre’s greats, but keep them watching from the audience 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z My sound in Chicago was more syncopated, like the bass line on 'Come on Sock it to Me.' Soul great's 'Mythology' rings true 2010-11-26T15:04:00Z Mr. Williams started playing a funk rhythm with syncopated cowbell accents on the drums, and that, coupled with a simple two-chord progression, became the spine of the track. Robin Thicke, a Romantic, Has a Naughty Hit 2013-07-21T16:14:52Z A sense of drama pervades the Andalusian capital, from its Moorish royal palaces and extravagant Catholic festivals to the way the strum of a guitar tends to send a whole room into syncopated clapping. 36 Hours in Seville, Spain 2014-04-10T14:19:24Z It’s carried by a cunningly syncopated track that uses acoustic guitar and a synthesizer blip alongside Afrobeats drum programming. Britney Spears and Elton John’s Mash-up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z “You have the sophistication to be an improvisationalist — a person who can skate syncopated rhythm.” Meet Bill Butler, the Godfather of Roller Disco 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Its syncopated little riff appears first on acoustic guitar. Sonic Tomfoolery and Rhythmic Savvy From Systema Solar 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Strings repeat the motifs over and over, punctuated by a pummeling of syncopated bass drums, the only percussion. Henryk Górecki's quirky, final major musical statement 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z Hamelin’s new recording, “Bolcom: The Complete Rags,” is — truth in titling! — the only survey of this catalog that manages to sweep up a few stray syncopated pieces the composer has ventured this century. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z There were syncopated lines that pushed the music ahead, pulsing lines that held it steady and viscous ones that deliberately dragged against it. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z Next came the even more energetic and contagious “Putty Boy Strut,” opening on a syncopated duet by Cohen and Pinciotti, beating the rims of his snare. At the Hamilton, clarinetist Anat Cohen and her quartet explode with intensity 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Tough, no-nonsense syncopated beats morph into heart-soaringly generous melodies and irresistibly cheesy chants. DJ Abrantee presents Afrobeats – review 2012-07-17T17:00:02Z At one point the men sung a low humming drone that blended with a gently syncopated percussion line to underpin Mr. Cole’s narration. Review: For Roomful of Teeth, It’s All About the Polyphony 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z The syncopated rhythms of wires, pipes and trusses on the Pompidou's urban cliff is the result. Richard Rogers: the world as it could be 2013-07-15T17:45:01Z In the event she returned to Beirut and a great stream of gorgeous syncopated abstracts that are based on mathematical permutations but fly free of science. Saloua Raouda Choucair – review 2013-04-20T23:05:40Z When Michael reaches New York, bits of jazz rich with sultry brass solos, wah-wah bursts from the trumpet and syncopated percussion blend into the strands of Stockhausen’s modernist language. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z A similar plea turns up in the refrain to “Real Talk,” one of the album’s most appealing tunes, built around a skeletal, syncopated groove. New Music: CD’s by Trey Songz, Bloc Party and Six Organs of Admittance 2012-08-20T21:58:57Z The violinist Elizabeth Derham and the violist Jiwon Kim gave a high-energy performance from the outset of the first movement, a propulsive, syncopated race that pits the two instruments against each other. New Juilliard Performs Contemporary Music at Summergarden 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z She pulls off her musical exploits with a girlish, giggly charm, even as her hand gestures pinpoint each syncopated accent. ArtsBeat: Working Hard at SXSW: Kimbra 2012-03-16T02:08:37Z The quartet’s self-titled debut pops out of the speakers – driving guitars, Ringo’s walloping drums and syncopated handclaps on the incandescent “I Saw Her Standing There.” Top box sets, from the Beatles to Bill Withers 2012-12-10T16:42:00Z Its walking bass line is the song's closet hook, syncopated against the beat to halting effect. Friday Favorites: J. Pinder, Freeway and Jake One, Last Night's Mixtape 2010-04-09T20:04:00Z Mr. Trujillo worked out the syncopated rhythms of two groups engaged in a dance battle of sorts. Sergio Trujillo Realizes His Dream of Salsa on Broadway 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z A syncopated acoustic guitar and Oladokun’s determined voice hint at Tracy Chapman as the song begins; more vocals and guitars join her, insisting on optimism even if “maybe we’re running out of time.” My Chemical Romance’s Prog-Emo Surprise, and 12 More New Songs 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The pensive melodies blossom with the aid of reggae and South American grooves and syncopated hand-claps. Disappears, Typhoon bring the rain at Lolla 2011-08-06T20:28:00Z This new ballet is done to seven songs by the English musician James Blake, who writes delicate, poetic ballads over electronic keyboard and syncopated percussion. Review: William Forsythe’s Wonderful Love Letter to Ballet 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z The patterned holes in the paper kept coming and turned into syncopated sweetness before your eyes. Character Study: Randolph Herr, 64, Maestro of the Player Piano 2012-09-08T04:03:04Z Those two albums established the band’s sound, a mix of nervous beats accented with syncopated handclaps, deadpan vocals and even more deadpan lyrics about femme fatales in “nuclear boots and drip-dry gloves.” Concert review: Cars at the Riviera 2011-05-19T05:43:10Z And then breaking out into some glorious surprise burst of syncopated fever. In Seattle show, Savion Glover dances at the altar of tap 2012-03-18T06:06:46Z Producer Jeff Tweedy doesn’t try to mimic Pops’ haunting, reverb-drenched guitar tone, but instead chops up the syncopated beats and lets them kick up clouds of feedback. Album review: Mavis Staples, 'One True Vine' 2013-06-24T16:03:00Z “The Fits,” a dreamy, beautifully syncopated coming-of-age tale, takes place in and around a recreational center that could not look less inviting. Review: In ‘The Fits,’ a Graceful Tale of a Girl Who Follows Her Own Beat 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Ten feet square, it agglutinates irregularly alternating triangles of pink, scarlet and wine into a syncopated pattern that seems to shift and fizzle. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Lewis’s left hand nails down the beat while his right flings syncopated chords against it or sweeps down in sudden glissandos. Jerry Lee Lewis: Listen to 10 Songs From a Rock ’n’ Roll Pioneer 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z He offers a syncopated funk arrangement of “I Mean You,” by Thelonious Monk, and a chiming reharmonization of “You Are Special,” a waltz from the children’s show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Review: ‘Aria,’ by Sullivan Fortner, Full of Assurance 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Andrew Cyrille opens one of his two new albums, “The Declaration of Musical Independence,” with a syncopated figure on a snare drum, as taut and riveting as a military cadence. Andrew Cyrille’s Late-Career Renaissance 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z On a recent Saturday, normcore gays, ghetto gothics and jaunty Euros galloped in place in syncopated harmony. Boite: Verboten, a New Dance Club in Williamsburg, Opens 2014-05-01T00:05:57Z What rappers such as Kanye West and Jay-Z do with syncopated rhymes and rhythms, the Portland Cello Project bangs out with strings and bows. In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z Joined by H.E.R., with their voices overlapping over a handful of syncopated, descending guitar chords, the singer is wounded and adrift. Jazmine Sullivan Ponders Love and Materialism on ‘Heaux Tales’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z As Sheeran’s lawyers said repeatedly, what the singer was accused of copying included a stock chord progression and syncopated rhythmic pattern. 6 Takeaways From Ed Sheeran’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Copyright Case 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z For the concluding movement Barber filters Bach through a contemporary prism in a jazzy, syncopated fugue, whose four voices were cleanly articulated by Mr. Anikushin’s deft touch. Music Review: The Pianist Maxim Anikushin at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-09T20:31:22Z A lovely painting that syncopates rectangles of black, red and teal hangs here next to a larger weaving with the same geometric arrangement. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Prodded by a funky beat and pelted by staggered, syncopated guitar and bass notes, he can’t expect good news. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z It's a sort of rocker, with a great syncopated rocky beat. Nick Hornby's favourite music – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-07-10T10:11:50Z Then the music segues smoothly into a perky, syncopated march. Music Review: At the Philharmonic, an Uneven Blend of Jazz 2010-09-23T05:53:00Z His palms produce a thudding bass, his fingers tap out a fiddly syncopated tattoo, and his nails rattle a coffee mug into life as an improvised cymbal. The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review 2013-03-01T08:00:01Z Led by the Glass veteran Dennis Russell Davies with careful attention to both its underlying pulse and its twists of temperament, the opera opens with an ominous, low murmur punctuated by sharp, syncopated percussion snaps. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z “Loose Change” backs him with an implied beat — no drums, lots of space — sketched by syncopated chords from a string ensemble, skulking synthesizer tones and his own imploring voice. Lizzo Conquers Self-Doubt With an ’80s Jam, and 7 More New Songs 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Rogério Boccato joined in on tambourine, and for a good while Mr. Pérez managed to get the crowd clapping a syncopated pattern, making this feel less like showmanship than some kind of communion. Music Review: Danilo Pérez Celebrates Panama at Jazz Standard 2014-02-07T21:55:14Z But there’s no mistaking the urgency of Sam Fender’s desperate vocal, the rising refrain “He will play God” and the syncopated, reverberating guitar note that persists throughout the song, keeping things tense. The Playlist: Vampire Weekend’s Plucky Return, and 15 More New Songs 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Bhangra, a dance form originally associated with harvest festivals in India, is characterized by energetic kicks and syncopated drumming. Bhangra Is Big on Campus. Now It’s Inspiring a Musical. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z I HAD never noticed how closely the syncopated rhythm of zydeco music echoes the rollicking stumble of horses on rough terrain. Louisiana?s Zydeco Trail 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z Saldanha may never surpass the delightful squirrel-and-the-acorn sequence that opened "Ice Age," but the hundreds of deftly syncopated Brazilian birds that spark up Rio's opening musical number will do for now. "Rio" a fun animated frolic 2011-04-07T23:21:28Z They keep things syncopated and slippery, and Auerbach tosses off an ornery solo on “Getaway.” Album review: Dr. John, 'Locked Down' ✭✭✭ 1/2 2012-04-01T23:26:00Z Nearby, a drummer and pianist locked into a syncopated groove, following the beat of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who was conducting while seated on an elevated platform. ‘Hey, Mr. Living Composer’: ‘Champion’ Takes Shape at the Met 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Hancock started into a piano solo with his usual quicksilver poise, but just as he seemed ready to settle in, he swerved instead into a series of syncopated hits designed to showcase the drums. Review: Herbie Hancock, Basking in a Boundless Legacy of Fusion 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Across the new album, you let melodies breathe in a way we don’t hear in more mechanically syncopated Joplin performances. A Pianist Strolls Her Harlem History, and Scott Joplin’s 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z That means we get to hear jaunty syncopated works by Russians — as well as blues-inflected gems composed by Polish artists born under the Russian empire. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Even the syncopated structure of “Utopia Avenue” demonstrates how attentive he is to the rhythm of human experience. Review | In David Mitchell’s splendid ‘Utopia Avenue,’ a ’60s rock band finds its groove 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z “Fosse/Verdon,” FX’s new limited series premiering Tuesday at 10 p.m., is an eyeful of syncopated rhythm, a singular sensation, all pluck and tap dancing and juxtaposed mood and memory. FX's "Fosse/Verdon" dances, after a little warm up 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z The syncopated beat is steady, yet she knows the sentiment is widely shared. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z At night, from my cold bed, I could hear the syncopated rhythm of horse hooves on via Garibaldi’s cobblestone when all else was still. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z Langston syncopates his verbal abstractions in double time and then triple time, delivering conundrums like: “Creative manners to skip and erase from moment to moment/abstract, realist, most problematic version of futurism.” Drake Looks for Love, Repeatedly, and 9 More New Songs 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z He’s more about playing with subtler shades of tone and phrasing, dancing with the syncopated rhythms and plunging into the drone to excavate melodies. Concert review: Robert Plant at Taste of Chicago 2013-07-13T03:44:00Z The first violins play a goading, syncopated refrain as the harmony lurches underneath, slithering to a resolution before launching into grand second subject. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Sometimes he sinks into the kind of syncopated six-beat groove that he and Jones had made into an idiom of its own with the Coltrane quartet. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Each song built and built, only to be followed by another that was faster, higher, more syncopated. SXSW Music 2015: Ancient Songs With a Rocking Beat 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But at the end of the first short phrase, the clock can’t help having some fun, breaking up the boredom by throwing in a moment of syncopated rhythm. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z In the Cole Porter number “Night and Day,” Astaire pursues her about the dance floor with the wit of changing rhythms, sometimes syncopated, sometimes right on the beat, sometimes pausing to breathe the moment. ‘The Astaires,’ by Kathleen Riley 2012-06-01T22:36:06Z Matthews instructed him to simply pound out the syncopated "shave and a haircut, six bits" beat that would become the backbone of early rock `n' roll. Johnny Otis of 'Willie and the Hand Jive' dies 2012-01-19T18:01:06Z His poems, which are syncopated reveries about bologna sandwiches, sea lions, and the meaning of life, are integral to the “Nice Fish” script. Mark Rylance Talks Poetry and Ice Fishing 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Her melodies are casually acrobatic, like the syncopated, ever-widening leaps she tosses off in “Notice Me.” SZA Revels in Mixed Emotions on ‘SOS’ 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z “Most of the time they syncopate it wrong.” Hanson: No One Sings 'MMMbop' Right 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Oxygen, donning hats and gloves, fired off a snappy, stylish number with cascades of syncopated precision hits rippling through the group, and they left everyone gasping. What NBC’s ‘World of Dance’ gets right about dance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Together, they traded syncopated riffs with Mr. Corea, who sat at his own piano facing them. Lang Lang, Injured, Gets a New Left Hand. And Chick Corea. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z First, a hint of melody, syncopated against a hidden beat, ascending to some unknown goal. Robert Schumann: A Hopeless, Brilliant Romantic 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Because this really is beautifully crafted stuff, like Jacko if he never went Wacko, all Rock With You shimmer, a syncopated slickness worthy of Steely Dan and choruses that will steal your heart. New band of the day: Breakbot (No 1,516) 2013-05-21T10:55:57Z The bursts of asterisks, the scattering of exclamation points and ellipses, the syncopated distribution of repeated phrases and capitalized words — one could spot a Tom Wolfe sentence a room away. Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Then he barrels into the song’s theme, keeping a stubbornly syncopated pattern going in the left hand. The Playlist: Zayn’s Bizarrely Great Sleaze Rock and 13 More New Songs 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z She made the full process visible onstage, tapping or plunking or singing each part’s interlocking sounds and silences, only to reveal the magnificently syncopated results later in the song. Music Review: Tune-Yards at the Allen Room 2012-02-11T01:06:46Z Her voice sounds both guileless and cutting; she can be tough, sympathetic, vulnerable or brusque, bouncing syncopated syllables against tracks that often stay cannily unadorned. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But then the drummer Yussef Dayes starts to dismantle the certainty, playing with a rock drummer’s energy and syncopated, hip-hop innuendo. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z The sounds were just as eclectic, from Balkan, klezmer, Romani and Brazilian brass traditions to the syncopated beats of New Orleans second-line processions. Honk! Festival of Street Bands in Somerville, Mass. 2012-10-09T00:49:03Z In an interview with The Associated Press, Khan said Prince’s funky, syncopated music is a “brand that’s going to live forever.” Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan Headline Prince Tribute Show 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z As an isolated clip — “same to me” — repeats twice, its falling tone and syncopated beat are duplicated first on piano, then on guitar. Scott Johnson, Kyle Bobby Dunn and Dither Go Electric 2010-06-18T15:23:00Z Now it just sounds like an eternal, syncopated pulse. In 2022, Latin Pop Thrived on Innovation. Again. 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z When a white light was used, as on "Shelter," halfway through the set, it felt syncopated, as if the light were another percussion instrument. The xx delivers an ethereal yet precise show at the Paramount 2012-10-07T21:10:05Z Mozgala, who doesn’t give his age, has cerebral palsy, too, though in a less severe form, which manifests mostly in a syncopated gait. Meet Four Theater Artists to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Witch Gardens looked and sounded like a band indie labels should be swarming, especially during a brand-new song in which vaguely Malian guitar lines wrapped around a pounding beat, and syncopated vocals wrapped around that. Local music underground alive and kicking at Reverb Fest 2011-10-09T21:01:06Z But he agreed that the London Symphony is a high-energy enterprise, with a peculiar command of the “accented, syncopated, edgy rhythms that abound in American music and that American musicians have in their blood.” Trans-Atlantic Love Affair for the London Symphony Orchestra 2012-10-21T04:40:05Z It begins with strong, saturated chords before moving on to fragmented versions — some unison, some not — of syncopated soul riffs that are like abstractions of the song. Music Review: Grand Band at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-08-08T20:53:33Z For those who still frown on Glimmerglass’s embrace of American musicals, “Candide” is a fine compromise; with its shifting, syncopated score and vocal riches, it’s not out of place on an opera stage. Glimmerglass season shines with vibrant vocal performances 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z They rarely intersect, forming a shuffled, syncopated anthology, a variation on the multi-director omnibus films that were a staple of Italian cinema in the 1950s and ’60s. Movie Review: Woody Allen’s Latest, ‘To Rome With Love’ 2012-06-21T12:00:00Z The beat is fast, syncopated and relentless, and bounce fans know exactly what it’s for: shaking rumps at high speed. Less Underground Vibe at South by Southwest 2010-03-21T23:48:00Z By the early 1960s, the New Yorker announced that the quartet was "the world's best-paid, most widely travelled, most highly publicised, and most popular small group now playing improvised syncopated music". Dave Brubeck: 1920-2012 2012-12-05T18:49:19Z Two silhouetted bodies trade syncopated riffs in a lively tap showdown. Bursting Into Dance: Gentlemen, Assume the Superhero Stance! 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z A minute-long instrumental intro sticks to syncopated bass and dub-echoed drums, in a 10-bar pattern that threatens to trip up unwary dancers as it seems to switch between 4/4 and waltz. glaive Showcases His Less Hyper Pop, and 13 More New Songs 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Bravo and Harris keep things moving briskly, orchestrating plot turns and digressions in a way that both captures the stop-and-go rhythms of Zola’s experience and replicates the syncopated, splintered attention of Twitter itself. ‘Zola’ Review: Twitter? I Hardly Know Her! 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Its ethos was embedded in the street grid, its architecture dovetailing with the art inside, so much of it consonant with the syncopated rhythms and complex geometry of New York. Critic’s Notebook: Defending the Former American Folk Art Museum Building 2013-05-12T20:36:47Z He bases his work on the initial measures of Brahms’s First Symphony, which he so transforms that the opening syncopated fanfare sounds more like Carl Nielsen. Review: Semyon Bychkov Leads the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Franklin lies behind the beat the way Frank Sinatra often did, with the syncopated phrasing of a great trumpet or saxophone player. Aretha Franklin shows how to sing the 'Great Diva Classics' 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z “I’ll be your shelter,” Wyclef Jean promises, sometimes in a sweet falsetto and sometimes with hoarse vehemence, over mournful, syncopated guitar chords. Cardi B’s Gleefully Relentless ‘Up,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z All over the album, Mr. Wonder ingeniously meshes syncopated ascending and descending lines, as he did in the upbeat “Sir Duke,” the doleful “Pastime Paradise” and the kinetic “I Wish.” Stevie Wonder Plays ‘Songs in the Key of Life’ at Madison Square Garden 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z In “New Tributes,” both jived in the syncopated rhythms. Review | Sound system boom rattles Kennedy Center audience, but not soprano Brenda Rae 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Nikki is forever the carefully groomed captain, the boss of her small syncopated corner of the world. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z The album’s sound is very much still LCD Soundsystem — with its layers of propulsive, syncopated repetition patiently approaching a boil — but the moments of release are less euphoric. James Murphy Wants to Justify LCD Soundsystem’s Existence (Again) 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z “Struggle in the Digital Market,” the final movement, was also effective for the bold way Mr. Marsalis juxtaposed raw, wailing brass with spinning melodic twists, often hovering over obsessively repeated syncopated riffs. Review: Wynton Marsalis’s Urban Symphony for the Philharmonic 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s hard to top the opening of “Lonely Moments” — the way its spare octaves, separated at first by bewilderingly long silences, gather momentum and burst into rousing, syncopated harmonies. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Camila Meza joined the group on vocals for most of the set, bringing a welcome measure of cool ethereality to “Zone,” with its clockwork counterpoint, and “Gallop,” with its syncopated churn. Greenleaf Music Label Turns 10 With a Show at SubCulture 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Very quickly the band reached a high simmer, burbling with polyrhythmic intent: deftly syncopated bass lines, a flowing churn of cymbals and snare. Music Review: A Little Kick From the Mideast: Folk Spices the Jazz 2011-04-06T21:58:18Z Bernstein offers syncopated athleticism and a stylistic melting pot. The democracy of American music 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The Dvorak draws on that work almost literally in its Andante con moto, syncopated yet serene, like the partita’s Adagio. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Presents Serenades 2012-09-26T22:11:42Z At 84, Mr. d’Amboise got up to demonstrate the syncopated lunges that begin the first solo. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Not long after the start of the work’s second movement, the brasses simmer in syncopated rhythms full of unexpected emphases and sudden quiets. Music Review: Bernard Haitink Leads the New York Philharmonic 2014-05-09T21:23:31Z The failures are due to a basic mismatch between song and vehicle: When Doves Cry is far too funky and syncopated for such a mournful, beatless setting. Scala and Kolacny Brothers: December – review 2012-12-13T17:09:23Z The syncopated tone of “Black Buck” keeps the story constantly shifting. Review | Mateo Askaripour’s ‘Black Buck’ is an irresistible comic novel about the tenacity of racism in corporate America 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z “Kick Jump Twist” considers the public lives lived on social media: “They want all invisible eyes on them,” Ms. Meath sings, amid skeletal, unsteady syncopated blips. Sylvan Esso Keeps Electronic Pop Human 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Once again, Gang of Four delivers a raw, syncopated wallop. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z Longhair had a syncopated rhythmic style, mixed with elaborate rolling figures that evoked the spirit of a New Orleans street parade. Allen Toussaint, songwriter, musician and producer of pop hits, dies at 77 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z On the Ryman stage, the three played up the humor of Monroe and a very pregnant Presley executing the scuffing dance steps of Appalachian clogging while Lambert scraped syncopated rhythms on a washboard. Country’s Fierce Supergroup Pistol Annies Returns, Humor Intact (and Baby on the Way) 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z He swerves from bouncy jokiness to violence — and from long, talky takes to quick, syncopated edits — with the dexterity of someone who has studied the early work of Quentin Tarantino. ‘Dope,’ a Teenage Comedy, Plays With Stereotypes 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He gave the proper sternness to Eastman’s thick systems of melody, strewn between the hands in syncopated passages. Now Celebrated, Julius Eastman’s Music Points to a New Canon 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The Lally-Canty rhythm section offered a syncopated, lustily grooving backbone in contrast to the speed and thrash of punk up to that point. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Most of the songs vamp through a handful of chords as Keys gives her voice room to leap, to curl, to muse, to syncopate; she has rarely sounded so jazzy and improvisatory. Alicia Keys, on and Off the Digital Grid 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z And in the years that followed he helped them explore the wonderfully syncopated African polyrhythms that became increasingly prevalent on the group’s next three LPs, which he produced. David Byrne, the Artist, Is Totally Connected 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z “Lucid Lullaby” was in standard 4/4 but functioned primarily on a syncopated double accent that Stevens placed at the end of each chorus. Review | An evening of exceptional rhythm from jazz bassist Linda Oh 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z After one of his famous press rolls, the launch of the full band into a syncopated figure would shake the walls and rattle the rafters. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Occasionally a few words in a voice-over pierce the syncopated rhythm of the drum. Review | Akram Khan delivers a powerful indictment of war in ‘Xenos’ at the Kennedy Center 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z “I found that I was more drawn to the darkness and the driven synths and the syncopated beats,” she told The New York Times last month. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Instead they recruited master studio musicians with the technique to play a syncopated groove in near-perfect time for five or 10 minutes. Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ May Rule the Summer 2013-05-29T21:52:14Z Then the music segues smoothly into a perky, syncopated march. Music Review: At the Philharmonic, an Uneven Blend of Jazz 2010-09-23T05:53:00Z His pop-gospel ingredients aren’t so unusual: upward key changes, syncopated and synchronized horn lines, the introduction of new melodic strains, the gradual swelling of volume and harmony. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z Black and white tiles create a slinking, syncopated visual rhythm across the floor. Labor-Intensive Vietnamese Cooking in a Summer Short on Labor 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Robbins made sketches of jumping and prancing seamen, drawing perhaps from the sexed-up paintings of Paul Cadmus, and plotted out scenes with Leonard Bernstein, author of the ballet’s syncopated score. Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Fosse changed movies and Broadway forever, inventing an original American dance idiom: syncopated, tiny, isolated movements with shades of burlesque and showbiz with a capital S. Sam Rockwell, Screendom’s Slinkiest Rogue 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z A fairground tune unfolded on the toy piano, a bittersweet interlude evoked loss, and a syncopated bluesy melody evolved in a melancholic haze. Music Review: Margaret Leng Tan on Toy Piano at Washington Square Park 2013-07-17T20:27:22Z Dancing, we are told, was "a potent symbol of modern urban kinesthesia" and "a cultural metaphor for urban flux and syncopated movement". Nights Out by Judith R Walkowitz - review 2012-05-18T08:00:04Z Take the book’s opening essay, “A Day Like Any Other,” a syncopated collage of news items culled from thirty newspapers on September 22, 1936. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z He grabbed the cymbal with his left hand, struck a syncopated beat with his right, stuck out his tongue and rocked to the rhythm while playing. Haitian students play drums and strum guitars to escape hunger and gang violence 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z The main challenge is getting the syncopated rhythm down, Glass said. The ultimate Beyoncé karaoke power rankings 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z There’s also the music itself of “Planet of the Bass,” which Sloan defines as fast and syncopated, with elongated melodies bordering on operatic — which, considering the humor of the song, makes for an amusing tension. Why you can’t get ‘Planet of the Bass,’ the playful ’90s Eurodance parody, out of your head 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z In a transitional syncopated phase, authors used some symbolic notation, but algebraic ideas were still presented mainly rhetorically. The Mysterious Origins of ‘X’ in Algebra 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z In “Heartbeats,” Dixon uses line breaks to generate a syncopated rhythm that unfolds a narrative of regularity and revelation. The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Smith’s syncopated keyboard style reflected the influence of his early idol, Professor Longhair, who combined boogie-woogie with habanera and rumba rhythms. Huey ‘Piano’ Smith, New Orleans rock-and-roll pianist, dies at 89 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z He played the syncopated section at the piano and offered what could be his mission statement. Perspective | Burt Bacharach perfected a musical style, nothing easy about it 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Go-go itself is known for reworking existing intellectual property — pop songs — with the genre’s distinctively syncopated conga and timbale rhythms. Coachella sues D.C. ‘Moechella’ music festival in trademark fight 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Diophantus of Alexandria used a syncopated algebra in his great work Arithmetica. The Mysterious Origins of ‘X’ in Algebra 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Then, the vocal is up front and present, backed by a bass and a strumming acoustic guitar — and subtly syncopated, so the thoughts are just slightly off the beat: Selena Gomez finds her balance and shares her struggle in the song 'My Mind & Me' 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z His #getTWISTEDsundays campaign gained attention by delivering stunning visual content, including music videos with gorgeous cinematography and syncopated choreography. AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Tobe Nwigwe lives with purpose 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It exemplifies her guitar style, known as “Cotten-picking,” which has a pulsating, syncopated rhythm akin to the rippling of a mountain stream. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts Washington guitar legend Libba Cotten 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z But, Anderson later wrote, “No one had described a ‘syncopated’ clock and this seemed to present the opportunity to write something different.” Perspective | The story behind some catchy music that punctuated late-night movies 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Samba, the syncopated style created by Brazil’s African slaves, has become synonymous with Lula supporters. Brazil braces for turmoil ahead of presidential election 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The moves were so precise and well-timed that each palm slap on a rifle, step and heel click formed a kind of syncopated music. A ballet with bayonets: Military drill teams square off on National Mall 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Shake It Off, meanwhile, is the ultimate "glitter gel pen" song: "Frivolous, carefree, bouncy, syncopated perfectly to the beat." Midnights: What we know about Taylor Swift's songwriting 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Back in New York, Lansbury said, Sondheim sang “The Worst Pies” for her — a tricky song rhythmically, involving the syncopated exertions of kneading of the pie dough. Perspective | Angela Lansbury’s success was no mystery: She owned every stage 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z “The way that he syncopates and phrases, if it’s not codified, then he escapes a dialogue about jazz piano history.” Mal Waldron, sideman to jazz greats, gets a solo retrospective 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The band further indulges their sonic curiosities on “This Is Why,” which is accentuated by syncopated rhythms and jagged guitar rock riffs. As emo nostalgia crests, Paramore returns, with a new sound and a healthy outlook 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Her husband started hearing syncopated samba beats while he sat in the car, exercised and worked from home. Married and on your parents’ cell plans 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Young protesters syncopated their rebellion with local hip-hop. Phyo Zeya Thaw, Burmese Pro-democracy Rapper, 41, Is Executed 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z And “L/R” was a syncopated groove in which Yanya’s voice ascended to its higher registers on its way to a line that, perhaps ironically, endorsed, “whatever makes you happy.” Review | Nilüfer Yanya sings in a remarkable voice as complex as her heritage 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “Speeds exceed, keep up with the times,” they sing in syncopated deadpan. Review | Straw Man Army’s clear-eyed punk songs look hard into a dark future 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z At rows of tables, players, mostly from the Caribbean, practiced, the air syncopated with the pop-pop-pop of plastic balls. ‘The Sport of Love’: Ping-Pong, the Great Equalizer 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z He blended Black American syncopated rhythms and bluesy harmonies with European-derived classical and semiclassical forms, such as marches and waltzes, to create a new music shining with indigenous authenticity and refinement. Opinion | Scott Joplin’s Ragtime Is Ambrosia. Here’s Why It Matters. 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The song “Every Letter” moves like a quickened heartbeat, caffeinated by a driving cello line and syncopated, pounding drums. In 'Cyrano' song 'Every Letter,' three voices swirl, dance and finally unite in harmony 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z He specialized in Piedmont blues guitar, a fingerpicking style in which a syncopated melody on the high strings is supported by a two-note pattern on the bass strings. Warner Williams, master of the Piedmont blues, dies at 91 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z Witnessing the past four years of Wall’s career has been like trying to slow dance to a syncopated mess of kazoos and congas. Perspective | The ballad of John Wall doesn’t have to end in sorrow 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z With its propulsive, syncopated pulse, torrid horn solos and scratching rhythm guitars, “Cold Sweat” became recognized as one of the first songs in a new genre that came to known as funk. Pee Wee Ellis, who helped put the funk in James Brown’s music, dies at 80 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z When Ama and their two boys joined him a year later, she brought a variety of records and the house was filled with syncopated jazz beats. 'How falling from a roof inspired me to become a musician' 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z These visual depictions of sound look like sonar images from the ocean floor, with multicolored peaks and valleys depicting a syncopated go-go beat, the blare of a siren and the whoosh of a Metrobus’s brakes. Perspective | Listen up: The Smithsonian wants people to plot the sounds of D.C. on a map 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z From its syncopated electric piano riff to the soaring chorus, it contains three of pop's most uplifting minutes. Hall And Oates: How You Make My Dreams became a streaming hit 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The signature, syncopated go-go beats on track “Blessings on Blessings” might ring familiar to D.C. natives. Anthony Brown’s gospel music is about creating connections 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Repetition has an indelible place in Black expressive culture: in the syncopated rhythms of jazz, the phrasal repetitions of the blues and the guttural moans of soul made meaningful by dint of remarkable vocal performances. The Artists Dismantling the Barriers Between Rap and Poetry 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z But Friday night takeout and delivery is gaining steam, the rhythm of weeks syncopated by the arrival of plastic-wrapped cutlery and plastic foam clamshells. Move over, Taco Tuesday. Friday night takeout is bringing restaurants back from the brink. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Whatever lineup he had behind him, he always generated terrifically rhythmic, syncopated music. In the Summertime: how Mungo Jerry made a sweltering classic 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z This one is syncopated at best, with starts and stops and unpredictability baked in. Perspective | In baseball’s pandemic season, Max Scherzer’s injury counts as a welcome diversion 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Lyon even orchestrated a rhythmic honking to the syncopated opening chords of “Talk to Me.” Live Music Returns to the Shore: ‘It’s Like Getting Your Life Back’ 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z Bohannon’s drumming stripped away the syncopated style that was standard on funk tracks in favour of a simple, driving rhythm, the bass drum playing four beats to the bar, or four-to-the-floor. Hamilton Bohannon was making disco before disco 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z The record’s appeal is immediate and visceral — whimsical melodies and lo-fi rhythms build and intertwine in a kind of syncopated, aural hide-and-go-seek. 33 life-affirming albums to help get you through self-quarantine, according to music experts 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Her arms floated and twined, as if they had no bones or joints, as she dipped and rose to the urgent syncopated gongs of a gamelan orchestra. Overlooked No More: Ni Gusti Ayu Raka Rasmi, Balinese Dancer 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z In the modern game this is a doubly difficult task, because as well as attacking to a syncopated rhythm, the creator is also usually required to defend to a conventional one. Pulisic's high-speed game of hide-and-seek is making him a Chelsea idol | Jonathan Liew 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z He has a creative flourish with vowel harmony in “Lovin’ On You,” stringing together similar sounding words in a syncopated style that’s a little like rapping, but slower. Review: No sophomore slump for country singer Luke Combs 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The syncopated clicks and whirs of the machines are run through sound devices and computer programs to create the melody while Menoh and Mitome perform the vocals. Your closet is their stage: Les Sewing Sisters' mesmerizing, funny performance art 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Not many, but enough to start infecting celebrations with doubt, to break up the exact time, the exact place, to syncopate something that used to be whole. The Disastrous Arrival of Video Replay in English Soccer 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Directors love his peculiar contradictions and his syncopated speech. Adam Driver, the Original Man 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The music is muted, faintly trip-hoppy – syncopated funk drums, a relentless guitar loop, cinematic strings – but flecked with shards of disjointed noise. PJ Harvey's 50 greatest songs – ranked! 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Feel For You, on the other hand, flutters around a syncopated syn-drum loop as Khan repeatedly declares her love to, one presumes, her latest victim. Bat For Lashes indulges her vampire movie fantasy 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z The good vibes smash-cut to a shot of the Long-Allen Bridge taking the characters into the South, scored by Hendrix’s syncopated, acidic “If 6 Was 9.” 'Easy Rider' at 50: How they put together that groundbreaking soundtrack 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Along the great rivers of the U.S.—the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and many others—history is tied to the syncopated rhythm of flooding. The Problem with Levees 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Gilberto began his musical career in the 1940s, but it wasn’t until the mid-1950s that he developed the distinctive understated vocals and syncopated rhythms that would become known as bossa nova. João Gilberto, a quiet and leading voice of Brazil’s bossa nova music, dies at 88 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z Audiences don’t move along orderly hallways here, but through a sequence of tight and vast spaces, accompanied by a rhythm of syncopated views — in toward the auditorium, out to the street and sky. How Disney Hall has transformed a downtown L.A. neighborhood and the city beyond 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z In some sequences, the action is clever, stylish and syncopated with the camera in motion. Review: In ‘Parabellum,’ John Wick is on the run again 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The other team was lined up around the eastern gutter, doing its cheer, a slow solemn clapping that built into syncopated yips and the pounding of feet on metal. “Brawler” 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Adams’ score had a sameness on the surface, because of his insistent use of chugging syncopated rhythms. Review: ‘Girls of the Golden West’ gets an Amsterdam remake, more powerful and profound 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Composer Flaherty explains ragtime’s structure this way: Steady, marching notes played by the left hand represent the order of the piece, while the right hand uses syncopated rhythms to go against the order. Labor strikes, racial violence, class divides: 'Ragtime' in Pasadena feels ripped from today's headlines 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Lane astonished audiences, dancing a modified Irish jig and reel set to syncopated African rhythms, which laid the foundations for tap dancing. Blackface is a strange ghost that haunts America | Gabrielle Bellot 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z He included the latter song in his opening-night set at the Colosseum, percussionist Teena Lyle gleefully adding a loud scratch sound after each time the syncopated title refrain rolled around again. At 73, Van Morrison is no longer doing things 'for survival' 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Although the album’s lyrics are often optimistic, even grateful, its sound is primarily dark, marked by throbbing synthesizers and heavy, syncopated beats. Sharon Van Etten Finds Peace After Ache 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z I grew up on Yankovic albums, and “The Hamilton Polka” contained the hallmarks of his best medleys, the syncopated rhythms and irreverent sound effects. This is the pop culture that helped us survive 2018 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Later, the group rehearse the intro to Merrie Land a dozen or so times; referencing the CD as they attempt to replicate the tricky, syncopated rhythm of the opening bars. Damon Albarn plays 200-capacity social club 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z I went to a similar one as a girl in Philadelphia: black men and women in their finery — and hats, of course, always hats — the preacher’s syncopated call to souls after the sermon. Solange, the Polymathic Cultural Force 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z “Our music is very syncopated, and you have to be a really good percussionist. The feel is still like Miami Sound Machine … the music sounds like the songs you hear on the albums.” The music and life stories of Gloria and Emilio Estefan aim to get you ‘On Your Feet’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Similarly, “Strange Relationship,” which appeared on his 1987 album “Sign O’ the Times,” is full of sultry rhythmic urgency thanks to his inventive, syncopated piano accompaniment and every-other-beat foot stomps. Review: Prince’s ‘Piano & a Microphone 1983’ showcases his musical brilliance - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Mandžukić’s nine-minute, operatic breakdown—a syncopated series of stops, starts, and seizures, which defined the match, and took it away from England—began in the final moments of the first period of extra time. World Cup 2018: The Tragicomic Opera of Croatia’s Mario Mandžukić 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “A musicologist needs more than that. Was it syncopated drumming? Single drum? A drum ensemble? A tambourine?” Leo Sarkisian, who brought African music to listeners around the world, dies at 97 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z By contrast, the line with the syncopated melody uses non-isochronous rhythms. Perspective | No, iPhone ringtones aren’t bad. They’re musically sophisticated. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z “I want to feel good about me, and blame no one for my misery,” the poets continue in collective, syncopated rhythm. The Last Poets: the hip-hop forefathers who gave black America its voice 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z With each flurry of punches there would be no syncopated beat. The women boxers of Gleason's Gym – a photo essay 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z But then he added this remarkable sentence: “Personally, I find it easier to come in on the syncopated beat, because it reflects Frederik’s muddled state of mind.” Stephen Sondheim, Theater’s Greatest Lyricist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Other times, though, you missed the syncopated punch that often kicks Tacvba’s songs into override. Café Tacvba and the L.A. Phil find the sweet spot between Latin rock and orchestral elegance 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Roads will become narrower and traffic signals will vanish as autonomous cars, shuttles, and buses blend and interweave in a delicate, syncopated ballet of technological harmony. Self-driving cars are on a collision course with our crappy cities 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z There’s a hint of Latin music in the way Nick Zinner’s guitar hops around in syncopated arpeggios, while Brian Chase’s drums sketch a laconic backbeat. null 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z It thrummed heavier, eased, then hammered down in waves, a syncopated rhythm. On the road with Hurricane Harvey: what it was like to cover the storm 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z Like most of his songs, “Imitadora” adds a dollop of R&B keyboards to the syncopated guitar plucking of the Dominican bachata, along with a few words in English, and it’s a plea for romance. null 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Throughout “Something to Tell You” the women deploy their signature vocal approach — a kind of syncopated percussive delivery with more than a little hip-hop in it — while Danielle’s lyrics address big themes with off-kilter specificity. Haim still shares a vivid private language on 'Something to Tell You' 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The actor’s musicality helped him land “Baby Driver,” an ambitious passion project from “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz” filmmaker Wright that’s filled with syncopated action scenes and car chases galore. The musical, millennial life of 'Baby Driver's' Ansel Elgort 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Solving the crime requires our man to shuttle back in forth in time — syncopated time, of course. 3 crime novels to slip into your reading schedule 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z The title track begins with a quick and syncopated bass pattern, and a sharp, downward-weaving line enters quickly. The Playlist: J Balvin Displays His Global Savvy, and St. Vincent Keeps it Local 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z From the intimate early Simon and Garfunkel songs to the syncopated levity of “Graceland,” Simon has a talent for capturing a persistent human longing. Summer Concert Guide: 31 can’t-miss shows, from Kendrick Lamar to U2 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Actually, there is one string of landmarks here in 1940: the syncopated clutter of the long line of tall power poles competing for our attention on the east side of Roosevelt Way. Roosevelt Way was a little short on landmarks 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Everything was syncopated and synchronized to his body movements. Keith Richards talks Chuck Berry: 'I've learned more and more from him over the years' 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z The syncopated string bending of the intro led to an unforgettable argument between Berry and Keith Richards in the “Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll” documentary. 15 Essential Chuck Berry Songs 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Sticks repeatedly banged against the ice, giving the practice a syncopated beat to follow. Kings ride four-game winning streak into Philadelphia 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z And as I made my way back toward my room, I heard small, syncopated popping sounds, growing louder and louder. When Did We Stop Chasing Spectacular Encounters? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z There’s this mad, syncopated brass riff that almost sounds as if it’s from another record, and a bass part that sounds if someone’s tied the bass player’s fingers together. It's Christmas! The best festive songs, chosen by Slade, Neil Diamond, the Waitresses and more 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The novel uses its syncopated structure to turn the issues of race and class in every direction. Top 10 Books of 2016 Then, over the chorus, he ascended the fingerboard with gruff tremolos followed by some reckless-sounding syncopated chords. What’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ Without Garrison Keillor? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z You might call it an energetic, syncopated march. Highlights From the Rio Olympics Closing Ceremony 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z The dystopian portrait of the country under Mrs. Clinton is reinforced by a syncopated piano, softly tracking along in a minor key. Depicting a Country Sitting on the Brink 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z After an early phase of vibrant, syncopated abstract paintings, Oiticica embraced the tropicalist spirit of the 1960s with wearable capes, tents festooned with hay, and agitprop against the country’s ruling junta. Fall arts preview: Mexican modernism, Monet, and a new Smithsonian museum 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z "It's part of what enriches us," said Ruzzo, known for his high-speed rapping in syncopated Spanish, who now lives in Pamplona. Cuban hip hop group Orishas reunite with ode to island 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Essentially, instead of a steady, metronomic beat — left, right, left, right — her stroke is syncopated: short left, long right, short left, long right. How Katie Ledecky became better at swimming than anyone is at anything 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Isaac, 35, explained, "people can't sing the chorus right. Most of the time they syncopate it wrong." That 'MMMBop' cover you love is probably being sung wrong, Hanson says 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z In this song, the narrator is trying to avoid a long-term relationship but going back to the same woman despite himself — and that push-and-pull theme is reflected in the syncopated country-rock hook. The Brothers Osborne continue to reshape modern country music 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Seven actors playing members of a support group sit on folding chairs in a dimly lighted gymnasium or social hall, over the quietly chirpy sounds of syncopated strings and xylophone. New Ted Cruz Ad Mocks Marco Rubio as ‘Just a Pretty Face’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The ad saves its final 10 seconds for a syncopated list of critiques — “One high tax, Common Core, liberal energy loving, Obamacare Medicaid expanding president is enough.” Group Backing Marco Rubio Unleashes Ads Attacking Chris Christie 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z Sunday’s show was packed with more exciting acts, most notably the 1975, a sly English group that surrounded singer Matt Healy’s dreamy tenor with neatly slashing guitar riffs and syncopated funk-pop rhythms. At KROQ-FM's Almost Acoustic Christmas, a blend of modern and not-so-modern rock 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z His long ponytail and goatee showed signs of graying, but his exuberance for Wills’s syncopated country music was undiminished. Asleep at the Wheel keeps rolling along 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The novel burns out on the high heat of its own aspiration; its frenetic, syncopated style is as deafening as that of Schlemilovitch’s play. Patrick Modiano, True Detective 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z He called it an “acoustic mixtape,” and the casual performances—some of which seemed to have been recorded in bars, or maybe at house parties—showed off Hunt’s love of quick, syncopated vocal rhythms. Bro-Country Grows Up 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The rave chords, syncopated bass lines and soaring guitar figures are a "Trojan horse", he explains, disguising the bubbling "lava of doom" beneath the surface. Everything Everything: 'Our album is a horror bible' - BBC News 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Our heartbeats, hormones, hunger, alertness, digestion, fatigue and other bodily functions move through regular cycles on a schedule that is both predictable and syncopated, changing as circumstances demand. Lack of Exercise Can Disrupt the Body's Rhythms 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Ragtime, the new music invented by black musicians, was shaking up the straightforward rhythms of the previous century and syncopating them irresistibly. The Cabaret Beat 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z “Swamp Thing” is a slow, syncopated blues that name-checks many of the hits and artists associated with the heyday of Muscle Shoals music, when the town was dubbed the Hit Recording Capital of the World. Alabama tourism officials promote Shoals recording sessions 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Those memorable lyrics, “Sunny day, sweepin’ the clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet,” still open every episode, but now the song has a syncopated, jazzier beat. Sesame Street marks 45th birthday 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z After several iterations of our syncopated dance, he stopped me and asked, “What are you waiting for?” City Room: A Tale of Two Subway Platforms 2014-01-01T13:30:17Z So the audience was stunned when she coaxed characteristically syncopated sounds from her oud as she sang along in Arabic. Jennifer Grout Sings Umm Kulthum Hits on ‘Arabs Got Talent’ 2013-12-04T18:28:30Z But modern life moves to a syncopated, insistent and incessant beat. Time to think 2013-01-28T09:31:21Z He was accustomed now to their comings and goings and the syncopated rhythms of their dislocated lives. Stalled Adoption Program in Guatemala Leaves Families in Limbo 2012-12-08T23:29:29Z Before my traditional breakfast of ackee and saltfish is served, the waiter joins in, beating out a syncopated rhythm on his chest. The loudest island on the planet 2012-09-27T00:10:12Z Their series of syncopated, puppet-like movements, all flexed feet and sharp elbows, was set to the music of films playing on the same ghoulish theme, including Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Synchronized Swimming: Russia qualifies top for duet finals 2012-08-06T17:00:28Z I am moved by so many different kinds of music, from the polyrhythmic, syncopated beats of African and Jamaican music, to the raw minimal sounds of punk rock. Santigold's Got the Next Sound, With a Recipe Straight Outta Brooklyn 2012-06-09T12:42:49Z Every voice was independent, and syncopated as were the rhythms. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Notes repetition, 34. double, 35. slurred, 62. tied staccato, 69. small, under large ones, 70. syncopated, 71. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z He bolted and sidled in a ragged syncopated gait, snorting and flinging his head angrily. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The final show featured a several video clips and montages, including many of guests and comedians ranging from Dana Carvey to Barney the Dinosaur imitating Philbin's signature, syncopated and enthusiastic manner of speech. Regis Philbin says farewell to "Live!" after 28 years 2011-11-18T17:12:59Z He began in a deep-toned rhythmical chant, and he proceeded with the syncopated melody, now and then sifting in some queer sounds that may have been words, while he kept time with hands and feet. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Both the syncopated rhythm and the rich ornamentation which naturally necessitate a frequent tempo rubato help to avoid the monotony which might result from the fact that Hungarian music moves in even rhythm only. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Notes occurring an entire beat of the prescribed time are, when syncopated, to be played between the beats. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z He says "Were going to syncopate our watches." No title 2011-09-30T02:00:20.710Z The Victor on deck, which had furnished the incentive to her turkey-trotting with Lord Willowmere, was still exuding a syncopated melody. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z This is because silence cannot be divided or syncopated, and therefore that would often be quite right as a representation of sound which is quite wrong as a representation of silence. How to Write Music Musical Orthography 2011-09-01T02:00:19.133Z Across the open space came the muffled roar of the shops and down under the inner gateway the gate-keeper was stamping his Arctic-shod feet and whistling "Weep no more my lad-ee," in syncopated time. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z If the syncopated notes occupy only a fractionPg 72 of the beats they are played between the fractional beats. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z Throbbing bass beats back the syncopated rhythm of bleating car horns. Sex in Saudi Arabia: In Pursuit of Romance 2011-08-04T10:04:08Z The rasping chords of a hard-working male quartette beyond the archway repeated a syncopated 9 rhythm for the entertainment of the patrons of the tables. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z “Musically, I thought something upbeat and somewhat syncopated would work, which was the basis for what I wrote,” he said. Bats: A Tribute to Jeter, in Song 2011-07-01T23:00:22Z He grips me without pity, He binds me with a thong Of contrapuntal ditty, Of syncopated song! The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z Somewhere at a distance a cracked old piano-organ was romping and giggling rapturously through the syncopated measures of Tin Pan Alley's latest "rag." Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Then there came to their ears a new sound—the gutteral, syncopated drone of twin engines—beating over the roofs. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z At that moment the measured booms of the large iya Hu drum switched to a rapid, syncopated beat, a knowing trick by Obewole intended to throw the dancers off their centering. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z The syncopated patter of hoofs just behind him told that Irene, too, had swerved and was carrying on. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z After this, one new subject is introduced—a breathless, syncopated, agitato phrase, which, worked up with the other theme, develops into a magnificent coda, marked "vittorioso" in the score—victory for Richmond, I suppose. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z We needn't even go into the whole North Korean-style syncopated bouncing thing. Race, basketball and the Fab Five 2011-03-24T01:01:00Z As I write on the 15th floor of a San Francisco office tower, not one but two jackhammers are pulsating somewhere outside, in a syncopated tattoo that echoes off nearby buildings. Green: A Park Rediscovers Its Soundscape 2011-02-23T16:00:02Z Professor Patterson claimed that all prose has rhythm, and he called prose "syncopated rhythm." The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z Twenty minutes in, the Sports for the Mind classroom was hushed but for the sound of keyboards being pounded and a faint arcadelike cacophony of poinging and bleeping over the syncopated pulse of game music. Learning by Playing 2010-09-16T13:08:00Z The whole overture is really in valse time, and the second half of the second theme makes a most interesting syncopated valse. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z There, in an anonymous Jakarta annex syncopated by a purple strobe light, Indonesian youths dance for Jesus. Christianity's Surge in Indonesia 2010-04-19T22:05:00Z “Mothers, sons, daughters witnessed the truckloads of men leaving their villages,” Mr. Masekela said in his syncopated narration of the migrants’ story. Johannesburg Journal: Music, Infused With Sorrow and Joy, in Honor of Migrant Dreamers 2010-03-19T02:16:00Z She syncopated a few bars of "Papillions" as though to emphasize her indifference. The Trail of Conflict Of the nightingale I have nothing to say, except to put on record a true remark of Sir Charles Stanford’s, viz., that he sings in a syncopated rhythm. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History It opens in the minor key with a strongly marked theme, rather in the nature of a fanfare; this is followed by a very beautiful Schumannesque syncopated passage. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z George looked often at the younger men, who didn't have to prepare themselves minutely for the greater struggle just ahead, envying them their careless play, their proneness to over-indulgence in beer and syncopated song. The Guarded Heights Her voice was interrupted by a syncopated clicking. The Trap Her respiration seemed entirely suspended, and it might have been merely his fancy that detected the least conceivable syncopated pulsation in the icy wrist beneath his fingers. The Destroying Angel They lived precisely as the beasts in the jungle live—diversifying their periods of torpor with bursts of frantic vituperation and syncopating enjoyment. Command There are parts of the Cornish Riviera, for example, in which you may travel for miles and miles without hearing a syncopated orchestra. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 After some mysterious and fantastic modulations a ff climax is reached which leads to the famous syncopated passage where the orchestra seems to hurl itself headlong into space, e.g. Music: An Art and a Language For days beforehand the negroes were busy indoors and out, cleaning, painting and whitewashing, exhibiting a tendency to burst into syncopated strains of Lohengrin whenever Jemima or the Professor came into view. Kildares of Storm He drove into the College, not to the stirring strains of "Oh, Canada," but to the syncopated lilt of "Johnny's in Town." Westward with the Prince of Wales His smile became more cat-like than ever as the sound of syncopated music reached his ear and he passed a woman strolling under the trees. Command He had sworn this was to reward his long months of loneliness, of syncopated hopes, of tiresome labor; his profession had become unleavened drudgery. Melomaniacs There being no first beat proper, the chords are syncopated against the air! Music: An Art and a Language The spectators join in the excitement, the men stamp and clap their heels to the rhythm of the dance, the women beat their hands one against the other to that same wild, syncopated measure. A Bride of the Plains I don't know whether they were stingers or swizzers, or whatever the syncopated phraseology of the great game dubs them, but they were matters of great admiration. Westward with the Prince of Wales Confine yourself to a syncopated chortle while I get a few facts out of Beulah. Turn About Eleanor A Schuetzen Park picnic was gathering itself under the arches, to the syncopated tune of a brass band. The Readjustment The Song had caught a Rag-Time girls could shout And Piano-Organs make a Din about; But syncopated Melodies at last Will pass away, and more shall come, no doubt. The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne The majority of players, however, seeming to hesitate at the moment when, by employing the syncopated form, the triple rhythm clashes with the dual rhythm, require assurance, 8which can be given by easy means. The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art The crowd enjoyed itself calmly and gracefully; there were none of those syncopated sounds or movements which in an English crowd show that youth is being served with pleasure. Westward with the Prince of Wales Now maybe Charles's genius was to hear in this hymn, or in a syncopated gospel version of this hymn, the possibility of a fusion of traditions which would itself become a new tradition—soul. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind This type of dancing expresses the American syncopated rhythms. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession It was the sound of a gramophone, harsh and loud, wheezing out a syncopated tune. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands The orchestra strikes up the first of its syncopated melodies; the barkeepers arrange their polished glasses in glittering rows; the waiters, soft-footed and watchful, take their places at their appointed stations. Little Lost Sister Then it gives place to a trio in B-flat, in which the violins start with a syncopated rhythm, and later all the orchestral persons take their turn in the development. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations It is about as far removed as one could be from the syncopated beat and amorous subject matter of "I Got a Woman." The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Buck-dancing is done to syncopated rhythms, and you must get the right accent on those syncopated beats or taps or you cannot get the knack of doing a buck dance properly. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Frenchmen and Americans were singing together, the Frenchmen in very quaint English, but hitting off the syncopated time as though they had been born and brought up to it as we Americans have. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France To underline his confidence the boneshaking chatter of pneumatic chisels began a syncopated rattle. Greener Than You Think The right hand deals mainly with syncopated repeated notes. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations No woman ever made Julius Cæsar dance to syncopated time, nor did a youth of eighteen ever successfully order him to take part in amateur theatricals on penalty. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 The "time-step" and "break" must be perfectly timed to the syncopated rhythm. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession He is about to give us something American: to sing and dance to syncopated melody. Nights in London "You sound like a syncopated opera; doesn't she, Bruce?" Miss Pat at School Mr. Orguly Bolp's large painting, entitled "Embrocation," is an interesting experiment in the handling of aplanatic surfaces, in which the toxic determinants are harmonized by a sort of plastic meiosis with syncopated rhythms. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 The additional movements may be of some service in certain cases, but in general they tend to confuse rather than to clarify, this being especially true in the case of syncopated rhythms. Essentials in Conducting It presented itself to him as a picture—legs moving against the walls of buildings, diagonals of bodies, syncopating face lines. Erik Dorn She danced exquisitely, her little satin-shod feet slipping silently through all the difficult twists and turns of the syncopated modern dances. Glory of Youth Syncopate a square column, and leave an adhesive salve; syncopate the salve, and leave a person found in a bindery; syncopate again, and leave a prayer. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 Realizing syncopated passages is a fine exercise for developing independence of movement in the arms and feet, as the feet move in between the beats of the arms. The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Then we tried a relay system of dialects which established a vague, syncopated kind of intellectual contact. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country People in general do not talk by book: they use colloquial language, full of poor grammar, slang, and syncopated words; and their sentences are neither always logical nor complete. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story In order to hold interest, there were English syncopated songs between the acts—ragtime is a new word, but not a new thing. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians As the tempo in any one of these increased, the rhythm was lost sight of and a peculiar syncopated effect resulted. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Randal told him the word was falsely constructed, Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid being, he said, syncopated adjectival forms derived from their respective substantive stems. Ambrotox and Limping Dick When the Squash withdrew to the summit the village was then called Mashóniniptuovi, “at the place of the other which remains erect;” now that term is never used, but always its syncopated form, Mashongnavi. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 At the moment I am writing to the sounds of K-K-K-Katie, which, I fear, is giving me rather a syncopated style. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 A tumult of voices leaped out to him when she opened the door—a lilting crash of syncopated melody. Then I'll Come Back to You Let that which must be expressed of the rest be merged, syncopated in the largeness of the modulation. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art A soft air rustled the drawn curtains of lawn; and on the dressing table the two little lamps fluttered in syncopated sympathy. Visionaries Baroudi raised himself up a little more, and, staring into her face, he opened his lips, and, in a loud and melancholy voice, sang the violent, syncopated tune the Nubian boatmen love. Bella Donna A Novel From time to time a curious syncopated semiquaver figure is heard in the upper part: it may be intended to represent sobbing. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development The riders had reached the dip of the trail now and the rhythmic pound of the horses' feet changed to a syncopated shuffle as the animals made the steep descent. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country The victrola at the end of the room begins to play a curious Indian air with an uneven, fascinating, syncopated rhythm. Greenwich Village He crossed the lawn, waited a few seconds till the piano ceased its syncopated frenzy and the dancers stopped. Poor Man's Rock That night he would seek in the native quarter the whining and syncopated tunes of the East. Bella Donna A Novel On and on, the constant rhythmic wailing of the fiddles, syncopated passion screaming with lust, the drums, horribly primitive; drunken embraces.... The Plastic Age That is the reason for the syncopated and jerky passages without rhyme or reason and which can only be explained by his unconscious imitation of Leuseur’s faults. Musical Memories Write one eight-measure phrase each, of the following combinations: The fourth species with the second; the fourth with the third; two notes syncopated against six notes; and three notes syncopated against six notes. A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons The increased length of this interval in the odd-numbered rhythms is unquestionably due to a subdivision of the so-called unit into two parts, the first of which is formally complete, while the latter is syncopated. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. He found it interesting, and was getting quite pleased over his cleverness in catching the syncopated time, when he spied an impertinent sailor grinning at him from the rigging. The Honorable Percival At a distance one hears only the wild high syncopated chanting; but as the affair draws slowly nearer, he catches the undertone of the responses. African Camp Fires There is release and exhilaration in the barbaric, syncopated songs and in the animal-like motions of the jazz dances with their wild and passionate attitudes, their unrestrained rhythms, and their direct appeal to sex. White Shadows in the South Seas When the syncopated note belongs to the harmony of the measure, it may be left by a skip or stepwise progression. A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons The persistence of these simple equivalences appears also in the treatment of syncopated measures and of supplementary or displaced accents. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The rhythms of the bristling lances are syncopated by a simple device; they are transposed to another plane of perspective, there in company with a lowered battle standard. Promenades of an Impressionist Just at present he has become an expert—almost a professional—dancer to syncopated music. The "Goldfish" No more sense to a time table than there is to a syncopated song. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays Rescuing the Runaways The fourth species may be combined with the second or third species, and two or three notes syncopated may be written in one part with six in the other. A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons In the next set of experiments the series of reactions involved the alternation of a syncopated measure consisting of a single beat with a full measure of three beats. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. It was a quaint syncopated tune, but not one of the Invincibles had any doubt that it came from some daring detachment of the Union Army. The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand The human voice supplies the libretto, while the accompaniment is provided by a syncopated and tympanum-piercing ping-ping, suggestive of a giant mosquito singing to its young. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand The farm Ford was standing there idling in a syncopated manner and apparently on the point of departure somewhere. Mary Wollaston It means a guest, also twins, and lastly, as a syncopated form of cohuatl, a serpent. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent This preponderance I believe to be due to the endeavor to repress the natural accent on the syncopated measure. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. It was the same tune, curious, syncopated and piercing the night shrilly. The Shades of the Wilderness A Story of Lee's Great Stand Just at present our young people are going mad over ragtimes, apparently because syncopated rhythms are new to them. Treatise on Parents and Children In this way, by the process vulgarly known as snobbery, a syncopated evolution of gentle birth and breeding is achieved in the case of a goodly number of families and lines of descent. Theory of the Leisure Class Four men were around the piano, and a girl sat at the keys, splashing out syncopated music while the men roared the chorus of the song. Black Jack The series of three beats decreasing in intensity represents the natural dactylic; the distortion actually presented is the result of the proximity of each of these groups to a syncopated measure which follows it. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The Cobbs' door, "H," stood open, an epicene medley of voices and laughter floating down the long neck of hallway on the syncopated whine of a ukulele. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Up the shelving shore, small, puny wavelets dashed in impotent fury, and the shingle sang unceasingly its dreary, syncopated monotone. The Black Bag Beat of her thoughts, beat of the music in a sort of syncopated time. Mary Olivier: a Life Every one seems to agree that there is a certain danger in mixing these infinitely subtle and "syncopated" tunes of prose with the easily recognized tunes of verse. A Study of Poetry There is similar evidence in beaten rhythms to show that when a full measure is elided, the pause which replaces it is of less value than the duration of a syncopated measure. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The line grew, eighty emptying theaters fifteen stories below, sending each its trickle toward the Midnight Frolic—men too tired to sleep, women with slim, syncopated hips, and eyes none too nice. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It He could hear her syncopated breathing before him, and gathered that something was wrong. The Black Bag The syncopated chords are on the four strings, all muted, and each divided into two parts. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama Without clear comprehension of what was happening, Sofia heard shouts from the other car, now at a standstill, and an oddly syncopated popping. Red Masquerade In intensity the syncopated measure is a point of increased accentual stress. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. They were curving up a gravel way, and through the lacy foliage of spring lights gleamed, and there came the remoter strains of syncopated music. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It For there the need for quick action, which in life tends to syncopate emotion, does not exist. The Principles of Aesthetics The extreme nervous tensity is emphasized almost beyond endurance by the incessant syncopated triplets of the strings. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama So convent life lost its austerity, and as the Council of Trent had not yet issued its stern orders commanding asceticism, prayers were occasionally offered accompanied by syncopated music. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists The reactors frequently repeated the full measure several times before introducing the syncopated measure, which thus brought a series to its close. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Some words she runstogetherso; Some others are distinctly stated; Some cometoofast and s o m e t o o s l o w And some are syncopated. Tobogganing on Parnassus She was in the midst of some syncopated measure when Boyd spoke abruptly: "Please play something." The Silver Horde The syncopated pulsations are resumed in one-half the full number of strings muted, and continue to the end, as do the broken chords of the harp. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama There is enough Arab blood in all of them to make them bold; Bantu enough for syncopated, rag-time music to take them by the toes and stir them. The Ivory Trail It will probably be found that in the actual construction of poetic measures the syncopated or partially syncopated foot is systematically introduced coincidently with points of rhythmical or logical pause. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. On a stage, at one side, a girl was singing one of the latest syncopated airs. The Dream Doctor Specimens of this cryptology are found in many of Mr. Irwin's sonnets, notably in No. V: "My syncopated con-talk no avail." The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum Also, every variation from the type indicates a point of accentual stress; the syncopated measure, for instance, is always strongly accented. The Psychology of Beauty By way of introduction, the low F in the bass of F minor sounded persistently, at syncopated intervals; Schilsky inclined his head, and Krafft sang, in his sweet, flute-like voice: Oh, Mensch! Maurice Guest The syncopated measure is used to mark the close of a logical sequence, or to attract the hearer's attention to a striking thought. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. It is a syncopated movement, and when given at the piano, is to be played furiously, first with one hand and then with the other, till the performer is quite weary. Bluebeard; a musical fantasy Just then Brick Murphy butted in between, Rushing my funny song-and-dance to jail, My syncopated con-talk no avail, For Murphy was the only nectarine. The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum The syncopated measure has to maintain itself against pressure, as it were, and thus by making its presence in consciousness felt more strongly, it emphasizes the fundamental rhythm form. The Psychology of Beauty Besides this, the right hand had much hard passage-work in quaint scales and broken octaves, to a syncopated bass of chords that were adapted to the stretch of no ordinary hand. Maurice Guest In each experiment full and syncopated measures alternated regularly with each other in continuous succession, giving the forms and . Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. He knew it perfectly by heart, but stumbled a little over the difficult syncopated time. Michael "Dr. Cumberly has told you the news?" she asked, dropping for the moment her syncopated and pugnacious manner. The Yellow Claw In duration the syncopated group is a shortened measure. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In both forms the reaction of the syncopated measure receives the greatest stress. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Even the excessive shortening which occurs in the trochaic form, when the full measure has a duration almost one and one half times as great as the syncopated, brings about no inversion of the order. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Every suppression of elements in such a series, every rest and syncopated measure has as positive and well-defined a function as have the successive reactions and their normal intervals. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. |
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