| 单词 | syncopation |
| 例句 | Then the pianist let loose a sequence of rising and falling syncopations and a man’s crooning voice stretched over it all. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Another hand up, forcing her limbs to cooperate, seeking a rhythm, but finding only an awkward syncopation that left her muscles trembling with every upward gain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Notice, however, that in other places in the music, the melody establishes the meter very strongly, so that the syncopations are easily heard to be syncopations. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Ragtime’s syncopation fed directly into an energetic, driving piano style of the 1920s known as ‘stride’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the syncopation in the third measure, the longest note doesn't even begin on a beat; it begins half-way through the third beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Werner runs with the others, trying to stay in the back of the pack, their rifles beating in syncopation against their backs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Secondly, there was a particular type of syncopation that originated in son that proved irresistible to late-twentieth-century ears. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z If you want practice hearing syncopations, listen to some ragtime or jazz. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He played with relish, sleeves rolled up, smiling at his work, tinkling from the low ranges to the high with the tricky syncopation of a tap dancer going up a Ziegfeld staircase. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I love the deep rumble of the bass and the syncopation of the treble. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The reason it’s called synco-pa is that it is short for the word syncopation, which means to have a rhythm that is ‘off-beat’ or doesn’t fall right on the beats of a song.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This syncopation is now so common in all popular music that it has quite forgotten its Cuban roots. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But then, in the second measure, a syncopation happens; the longest and highest note is on beat two, normally a weak beat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Ragtime’s syncopation was drawn from a relatively limited menu of possible variations, and could therefore also be written down and mastered, in time, by any competent pianist. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As it was passed from ragtime to early ‘Dixieland’ jazz bands, though, syncopation became more sophisticated: now, instead of the right hand cheating the left, one instrumentalist was playing against another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z On top of this accompanying oompah the rag pianists wove a catchy tune that pulled the rhythm around, a technique called syncopation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z You may not notice much when a fiddler edges onto a corner of the stage, or a percussionist joins in to bring Yazbek’s syncopations alive. Review | ‘The Band’s Visit’ settles in at the Kennedy Center 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s flush with jazz swing, irresistible syncopation and a call-and-response between a repetitive vocal chorus, the horn section and percussion. 10 Tito Puente Essentials for the Mambo King’s Centennial 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z What the opera house sacrificed in participatory fervor, it partly offset with clear acoustics that revealed every particle of Super Étoile’s syncopation. Youssou N’Dour Performs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of song that raises your heart rate because Mary Lou creates so much drama by pressurizing the syncopation between her perfect hands. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z “Psy Ops” has gnashing, dissonant, trebly guitar riffs over pounding drum syncopations, with Nadia Garofalo wedging telegraphic little bursts of lyrics — “now pay attention/your anger/fear/has got me” — wedged tightly into the groove. The Playlist: Janelle Monáe Feels the Funk, and 13 More New Songs 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z But after the percussionist comes in — offering a steady syncopation with the keyboard — the vibe of New York’s late 1990s underground hip-hop rears its head. An Artist Embodies an Approach to Music Without Borders 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z After a rumbling, brief introduction, the first full piece in the suite — “Odesa Railway Station” — progresses with piano syncopations redolent of silent film accompaniment. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z But there’s always tension somewhere: in a tinge of dissonance, in an insistent syncopation, in the spaces she refuses to fill in. Review: ‘Me,’ by Empress Of, Has Cool Assurance and Jumpy Lines 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The oom-pah-pah beats and tinkling timbres keep taking detours into odd syncopations and dissonances. Toy-Box Trio creates a lilting, lurching soundtrack to a carnivalesque world 2010-06-11T19:45:00Z In the film we see Nazis bark orders about the maximum length of solos and the appropriate percentage of syncopation. Review: ‘Django’ Distills a Perilous Musical Moment 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “The American sound for orchestra is music that deals with the elements of ragtime, rhythm, dance and syncopation.” Screams and silence: the new approach at Seattle Symphony 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z From the initial lurch of the opening track, “A Day Off,” this album flutters around Mr. Threadgill’s preferred zone of tumbling funk, brambly counterpoint and deft, darting syncopation. New Music: Albums From Wisin y Yandel and Giant Giant Sand 2012-07-02T21:53:46Z But the productions, and particularly Mr. Cook’s remixes, destabilize the pop they know so well; pitches shift, tempos suddenly skid, syncopations rise to battle the beat, and interlocking parts multiply to head-spinning effect. Review: PC Music and Sophie in a High-Concept Extravaganza at BRIC House 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Alsop, a consummate partner in all this, led the orchestra smoothly through the last movement syncopations as though she and Vondracek shared a single mind. Review | Czech pianist Lukas Vondracek reunites with BSO’s Marin Alsop at Strathmore 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z The syncopation of the guitar riff, he said, reminded him of “ancient Japanese R&B” — which he acknowledged “isn’t a thing” — so the video concept followed suit. John Mayer Knows He Messed Up. He Wants Another Chance. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The new tunes were firm in their moorings, even when the band grappled a little, as it did with some oblique syncopations in “Make Your Friends Feel Loved,” an elongated blues. Music Review: Nate Wooley Quintet Omega at Brooklyn Lyceum - Review 2011-12-01T23:16:00Z "Make Moves" uses his keyboard skills to subtle effect, and contrasts slow strings against drums that snap just a little before you're ready, causing a kind of hiccup syncopation. World premier: "Make Moves" by Seattle rap duo Helluvastate 2011-01-17T18:30:13Z The Funky Meters are half of the Meters, the band that reinvented and transformed New Orleans R&B into complex, stuttering, kinetic syncopations that became synonymous with the city’s music. Songs and Laughs for the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2012-12-27T23:59:25Z It’s an instrumental with a vaguely Asian keyboard motif, drum syncopations that clarify and recede into quiet thuds, one-syllable vocal snippets, rhythmic breathing and a constantly recalibrated sense of tension. The Playlist: Calle 13’s Residente Goes Globe-Trotting and Slowdive Cruises Back 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z An effective mix of louche syncopation, unabashed romanticism and biting sarcasm long set Kander and Ebb apart on Broadway, from “Cabaret” to “Chicago” to their brilliant earlier collaboration with Stroman, “The Scottsboro Boys.” ‘New York, New York’ Review: The Big Apple, Without Bite 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It announced her alliances with producers associated with the Night Slugs label in England and the similarly minded Fade to Mind label in Los Angeles, who favor subterranean bass tones, abstract syncopations and gaping spaces. Kelela’s ‘Take Me Apart’ Is R&B That’s Intimate Inside and Out 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Her beats pushed with syncopation rather than bombast; her voice was both elfin and strong, flicking her zigzagging melody lines across the music. ArtsBeat: A Range of Styles in 3 Performances 2011-03-19T21:31:31Z He learned to emphasize melody by plucking it with his strong thumb in syncopation with harmonic notes picked with his first two fingers. Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass Banjo Player, Dies at 88; 2012-03-29T05:13:11Z Mr. Glover and Mr. Davis tap up and down and all over these stairs, sometimes while matching the tricky syncopations of a Parker tune exactly. Dance Review: Savion Glover’s New Show at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-19T20:55:59Z He composed a book about New York with the propulsive syncopation of a jazz musician, trawling the city from Black churches in Harlem to society balls at the Waldorf. Trying to Contain William Klein in One Show Isn’t Easy 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z “Red Crown” has a tightly coiled opening riff partly derived, it seems, from flamenco; “Returner” builds a fortress of bruising syncopations. Playlist: Breezes of Jazz, Country and Black Metal 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z They include the languid opening “Flower of Our Heart,” the imposing timpani syncopations of “Mountain With Violets” and the energetic, bouncy “Dancing Flowers.” Music Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-14T20:36:41Z Tchaikovsky’s overture — with instruments playing high, fast and bouncy — is on the miniature scale of childhood itself, with passages of rhythmic syncopation that embody the excitement of a child’s eager anticipation. 10 Ways to Tell if Your ‘Nutcracker’ Is Traditional 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Shifting syncopations, bouncy guitar hooks and lazy floating harmonies all reference mid-1960s rock. What our writers love this week 2010-12-02T00:42:00Z Featuring a tambourine, triangle, and tam-tam, the suite’s second movement attempted to capture the vitality of black vernacular dance with syncopation, unusual chromatic lines and colorful effects in the strings. Did Dvorak’s ‘New World’ Symphony Transform American Music? 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z While he sings, percussion pecks at offbeats before settling into 4/4, while piano and pizzicato strings continue to pelt him with syncopation. Bruce Hornsby’s New Album Is Complex and Untrendy. That’s Why It’s So Good. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The new songs are constructed cleanly and strategically as they hurtle forward: guitars placed high and low, conversing back and forth, interlocking in syncopation or cooperating to push a song from both left and right. New Music: New Music by the Hold Steady, Future Islands, Caetano Veloso 2014-03-24T22:45:20Z His shuffles and boogies had lean, steely syncopations, and his lead-guitar lines presaged Detroit music in his wake: distorted and jabbing against the beat. Music Review: Mitch Ryder, Death and Gories Come to Lincoln Center 2010-08-01T22:30:00Z Then there’s “I Got Rhythm,” arranged as a trudging surf-style anthem with martial syncopation. Critics? Choice: New CDs: Albums by Brian Wilson, John Mellencamp, Trace Adkins 2010-08-15T23:05:00Z Autobiography is close to the surface in songs like the brief, jazzy “Quick,” which she sings with zigzag syncopations over just bass and drums, darting among anger, incredulity and pain. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z The songs are built around delicate guitar syncopations and hints of Celtic modes and bossa nova, with Mr. Watt lingering over the melodies in his tender, reedy croon. Ben Watt, Mournful but Optimistic, at Joe’s Pub 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Gee starts beating out a percussive syncopation as a young chorus dancer thrillingly taps out the complex and subdivided counts. Tony nominee Savion Glover: Go ahead, call me a Hoofer 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z There’s a stark difference between this and the group’s previous releases, despite the buoyant drift of “Cuernavaca” or the staccato syncopations of “Apsara.” Playlist : New Music From Baroness, Rhoda Vincent, Shintaro Sakamoto 2012-07-20T17:18:02Z It includes “On Lamp,” an undulating, not-quite-ambient piece that threads a wandering, slow-motion melody through a stereo dialogue of acoustic guitars and subdued tom-tom syncopations, like a glimpse of a distant caravan. A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Simon met with him while touring Europe with Sting and later visited his studio in Sardinia to choose some bubbling electronic syncopation. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z And then there is the rush created by Wainaina’s language, which moves to its own syncopation. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Gold Minds, an Australian band, brought tuneful pop approachability to the kind of dance rock that appeared in the 1980s, revving it up with buoyant Caribbean syncopations. Critic’s Notebook: Cacophonous Declarations of Independents 2012-10-22T03:57:17Z Only in the “Sunset” solo does she rise to the syncopations and rhythmic flair of Ellington’s music. Dance Review: Ballet Meets Broadway Choreographers and Composers 2011-05-26T21:20:50Z What sets it apart are a specific conga-driven syncopation, known as the pocket beat, and a culture of call-and-response that turns the crowd into part of the show. DC’s go-go sound becomes anti-gentrification battle cry 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The painting is a marvel of linear and planar syncopation. Art Review: At Museum of Biblical Art, the ?Glory of Ukraine? 2010-07-01T21:40:00Z The steps are largely textbook ballet, with enough wiggles of the pelvis and rhythmic syncopations to change their flavor. Dance Review: ‘Ballet Across America’ at the Kennedy Center 2013-06-11T20:57:15Z But his memoir, like Guo’s, also captures a China where the syncopation of pile drivers only adds to the drumbeat of national optimism. Eyewitnesses to America’s Greatest International Competitor 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Garland deftly combines the crisp rhythms of Bach with sharp footwork, jazzy syncopations, and hints of West African dance and the Harlem Shake. Dancing in the Streets of Harlem, and Gathering to Dance, Merce-Style 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Back arched and pelvis pushed, his torso slumped into an almost jazzy syncopation, emphasizing Balanchine’s persistent preoccupation with American dance and music idioms. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Albert Evans Gives Farewell Performance 2010-06-21T22:33:00Z The work rollicked along with blues-inflected riffs in dancing unisons on three main motifs: fast runs, repeated notes and syncopations. Trio celebrates 40 years of music 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Ms. Ringwald, who has a reasonably strong voice and blunt style of syncopation, displayed a reliable sense of pitch but showed little interest in sounding demure or coy. Molly Ringwald Sings at Café Carlyle 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Beck’s electric guitar opens with twangy rockabilly syncopation, sets up the choppy piano groove and pointedly spurs things along. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z In other songs, he rode the groove with nimble, airborne syncopation. Review: Maxwell’s Sensual R&B Makes a Big Room Intimate 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Yet the tricky syncopations of the Brahms overture emerged cleanly. Music Review: In Different Hands, an Assortment of Moods 2010-10-04T21:42:00Z Funn, as though determined to top them, let fly a series of unusual short phrases, divided by oblong rests that forced those phrases into syncopation. Tedd Baker leads an explosive performance at Bohemian Caverns By whatever means, Hayes was able to coax out sounds that could shift from slippery syncopation to dizzying, psychedelic crescendos. Meet the Musicians Who Gave Isaac Hayes His Groove 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “New York, New York,” is quintessential Bernstein: an exuberant opening with his trademark syncopation. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The cool, vibratoless voice, always on the note, singing without syncopation and with minimal dynamics, conveys an inviolable purity of heart tinged with mystery and a faraway melancholy. 2010-01-30T05:31:00Z Until the coda, that is, when the clock can’t help letting loose with a spurt of wild syncopations. Not Bach or Beethoven, but Leroy Anderson Is the Composer for Now 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z He did this on Mr. Stewart’s tune “7.5,” and again on Thelonious Monk’s “Straight, No Chaser,” after framing a pointillist reduction of the theme, all peekaboo syncopations. Nicholas Payton Trio Features Payton Mostly on Piano 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z All the hard-bop groups featured heavy syncopations: moments when the rhythm section emphasized discontinuity by ducking away from straight time for a moment. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Well, all right, then: the band struck up a light-funk groove, and Ms. Freelon plunged into one last song, parsing lyrics with syncopation. Music Review: Nnenna Freelon: Vocalist Who Bends Melodies 2010-05-12T20:28:00Z “Here’s my solo,” Mr. Murphy announced in “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House,” and started thwacking precise syncopations on a two-headed cowbell. Review: LCD Soundsystem Makes a Return and a Homecoming at Panorama 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z As usual, it’s a staccato setting for Dave Gahan’s baleful baritone croon, with single notes ticking like a countdown clock while other sounds poke in with sudden syncopations. The Playlist: Mariah Carey Shakes It Off, and Depeche Mode Looks for Revolution 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z There is also a syncopation to the comedy in this show that is very fresh and interesting, and it's probably subliminal for the audience because you're not thinking about that. They'll cry till you laugh 2011-04-22T14:43:00Z Instead, the Meters strutted, turning down the volume and finding unlikely, hip-turning melodies in complex syncopations. Leo Nocentelli’s long-lost folk-funk album sees the light of day, 50 years later 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Then he told the horns to play back their parts, this time with the syncopation sharpened up. For Etienne Charles, Jazz and Caribbean Music Are One and the Same 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Even with a skeletal lineup, the rhythmic drive was formidable as syncopations volleyed between clattering cowbells and sputtering bass drums. Music Review: New Orleans and Brazil Bring Beats to Lincoln Center 2013-08-04T20:34:34Z He continued into the first movement of the Schubert without pause, carrying the previous work’s subtle momentum through the symphony’s flowing melodies and the soft syncopations of its not-quite-waltzing second subject. Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z These include quirky syncopations in need of a nimble rhythmic touch to catch their sly humor. When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z A native of Gary, Indiana, she makes music that takes off from the blurry syncopations of Chicago footwork, a frenetic house-music derivation, into parts unknown. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: A John Singleton Retrospective, Jlin, and Aliza Nisenbaum 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z At other moments Hiromi made shrewd use of syncopation and even, fleetingly, silence. 2010-01-30T05:29:00Z He’s an avant-gardist known for his work with free improvisers like Cecil Taylor and Oliver Lake, but his Haitian parentage has a way of shining through in the syncopations of his playing. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z There are too many moving parts to find that perfect syncopation. ‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3 Premiere: Holographic Mustaches 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The rocketing scherzo with its syncopations sounded like a natural fit for Carpenter’s aggressive virtuosity, but the finale splintered inconclusively, with soloist and orchestra failing to unite in a common point. Review | NSO gets off to an energetic, all-American start 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z At the Bowery Ballroom on Thursday night, Cuarto Poder, a hip-hop group from Venezuela with four rappers, proclaimed Latin American solidarity and pride over sparse old-school beats that sometimes added Latin syncopations. Critic?s Notebook: Musical Ambition, Defying All Barriers 2011-07-08T22:31:28Z Their dual rhythms, alternately laid back and hyperactive, end up in a glorious and ridiculous kind of syncopation, unicornlike in its rarity and oddness. Review: Central Intelligence Shows Off Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson’s Unique Chemistry 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z You could sense history in the various dances of the pianists’ left hands: the slinky syncopations of habanera; the manic but metronomic bounce, in swing, as if between two trampolines. Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Though the sound of the strings in the opening is misty, it is swirling with syncopations, overlapping cross-rhythms and hemiolas, rhythmic devices that dissolve a listener’s grounding sense of a first beat to the bar. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The complex syncopation of Gershwin’s “I Got Rhythm” was sold by his brother Ira’s vivacious, seemingly simple lyrics: “I got rhythm/ I got music/ I got my man/ Who could ask for anything more?” The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z The guitar poked into interstices with pings or echoey chords or scratchy syncopation or dissonant counterpoint. How Pop and Jazz Wrapped Up the Past in 16 Boxed Sets 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z It amounts to a kind of conceptual syncopation — the making of an art work that is simultaneously a performance of being an artist — and it kept me thoroughly off balance. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z He's always retained jazz credibility, however, with a sensitive vocal style that can sweep across several octaves without missing the tricky intervals and syncopations of jazz virtuosity. Al Jarreau ? review 2011-07-05T18:30:01Z Neither he nor Mr. Winther swung in the conventional sense, and any syncopation was haphazard. 2010-01-08T03:47:00Z A second movement seems like a cosmic dance in which a four-squared pulse is constantly broken up by syncopations. Review: Terry Riley Works at National Sawdust 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Brozman’s music was rooted in the blues, but the open tunings, syncopations and microtonal inflections of the blues inspired him to soak up styles worldwide. Bob Brozman, Guitarist, Is Dead at 59 2013-05-02T00:36:58Z Maybe she’ll briefly hold the center — her whole body overrun with joy, arms winging and feet blurring in spasms of mad syncopations. Perspective | Putting tap where we wouldn’t expect it 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He found ways to inject his solos with an internal syncopation that lent his playing a subtle stop-start tension. Music Review: ‘Fats Waller’ Opens the Jazz in July Series 2013-07-17T20:19:04Z For the Reich, the players tackled insistent syncopations and interlocking motifs with seeming ease. Phillips Camerata and guests perform a trio of Washington premieres Even the second movement’s opening theme, so often played almost motionlessly, moved with dreamy lightness, and touches of syncopation in the third variation were handled tantalizingly and with a full-bodied transparency. Rodriguez ends International Piano Festival with imaginative takes on classical pieces And they gratefully sang along at every chance, even the patter-song syncopations of some of Ms. Nash’s choruses. Music Review: Counseling Women on Self-Respect Amid Tunes of Punky Rage 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z Both albums retain hallmarks of the Dirty Projectors’ sound — complex arrangements characterized by syncopation, self-cannibalizing melodies and beats that borrow from wide-ranging sources. “City of No Reply”: Can Amber Coffman escape the Dirty Projectors? 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z Turner's vocals once exuded whip-crack syncopation, but here he's largely settled into pleasant, ultimately nonchalant crooning. Neil Young gets back to the country 2011-06-13T15:53:30Z There’s pointillistic syncopation from marimba, glockenspiel and pizzicato strings, with a backdrop of sustained chords: the ticktock of everyday minutiae held together by the promise of constancy. Red Hot Chili Peppers Honor Eddie Van Halen, and 10 More New Songs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Elsewhere in the piece, he waits a little bit less than Monk would have between chords, erasing the potato-sack thwack of syncopation that typically defines the tune. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Visconti and Escovedo put a shimmy in the step of the title track and “Party People,” accent the big beat of “Headstrong Crazy Fools,” and undergird “Common Mistake” with sly syncopations. Album review: Alejandro Escovedo, 'Big Station' 2012-06-04T21:25:00Z And while the duo deploys house music’s deep bass throbs and programmed kick drum and high-hats, the music is driven just as much by the syncopations of the interlocking parts above them. Music Review: Booka Shade?s Dancing Mood at Music Hall of Williamsburg 2010-05-26T21:04:00Z “Shabby Doll,” a tale of back-and-forth humiliation, lost its old rock sneer for gnarled chords and hints of jazz syncopation, turning it into something more complex and compassionate. Elvis Costello Treats Carnegie Hall to a Solo Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But he was deeply technically gifted, a master of syncopation, with a deftness that could render even the toughest talk exuberantly. How Takeoff and the Migos Flow Changed Atlanta Rap 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z What he brought to every piece of technology was a human element: quirks and syncopations, complex structures and outbursts of anarchy. Bernie Worrell, Whose Keyboards Left an Imprint on Funk and Hip-Hop, Dies at 72 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z In recent years, the music has acquired a new looseness and swing, putting a syncopation in the step of many new songs and transforming Yorke into a dancing dervish. Concert review: Radiohead at First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 2012-06-11T06:27:00Z It was from that syncopation of the drums that we got UK funky. MistaJam's 10 tracks for 1Xtra 2012-08-09T19:30:00Z They are not concerned with forwarding the action so much as bringing aural pleasure, and indeed Lewis’s satire of a preacherly stemwinder, with drawn out vowels and pounced-on syncopations, is more than halfway to song. Review: In ‘Chicken & Biscuits,’ a Sweet but Dated Comedic Recipe 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z "Harlem House" and "Walking Papers" recall the Meters' New Orleans syncopation. New CDs: Old master Booker T. ? no MGs, but great new album 2011-05-10T00:44:08Z Blake’s jazz songs and fast syncopation “altered the form” of the early American musical, Wolfe explained, as it introduced African American idioms to Broadway. George C. Wolfe: A theater man on a mission to do a forgotten show justice 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Meadows, on the other hand, meshes well with the ensemble in the vivacious musical numbers, which reveal Morton’s deftness at syncopation and manipulation of the blues. ‘Jelly’ Jams with vibrancy (and only a couple of lumps) 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z The beat is closer to the buoyant bass and intricate syncopation of early productions by the Neptunes, Mr. Williams’s old crew, and it forces Skepta into unexpected cadences. Skepta and Dizzee Rascal Illustrate Grime’s Push and Pull 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Notable instrumentalists in the group included lead guitarist George Shuffler, whose intricate style of guitar, known as crosspicking, emulated the syncopation of the bluegrass banjo. Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Musicality is multilayered, including sharp dynamic contrasts; keen rhythmic syncopation; and long, complex phrasing. Review: The Royal Ballet Returns to New York With ‘The Dream’ 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z He brought a touch of sly playfulness to the Allemande, and dispatched the syncopations in the snappy Courante with biting intensity. Noted Pianist Piotr Anderszewski Takes a Break From His Career 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But they played nearly the entire piece in rhythmic unison: phrases that stop and start, hammering away and switching to syncopation, building up and backing off and gearing up again with a different attack. Music Review: It All Comes Through in the Mix, Even the Kazoos 2011-03-08T23:21:59Z Mr. Trammell answered with an extended solo on the high-hat cymbal full of fractured syncopation and exploding patterns. Review: Black Spirituals, a Duo That Defies Categories 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “Who Cares” is encumbered by the conventionalizing orchestrations of Hershy Kay, but once it gets going, the interplay between Balanchine’s classical steps and Gershwin’s syncopations is analogous to that between Balanchine and Bach. New York City Ballet in a Broad Program at the Koch Theater 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z They merge Frank Stella’s hard-edged syncopation with Southern California’s Finish Fetish movement, resulting in lustrous surfaces with an electric hum and smooth cast, like Everlasting Gobstoppers dipped in car paint. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z As an artistic statement, “Tommy Tune, Tonight!” is a lighthearted essay in syncopation that calls attention to the relationship between patterns of drumbeats and the sound of tap shoes. Review: ‘Tommy Tune, Tonight!’ Is the Musical Autobiography of a Showbiz Trouper 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z After some formless preamble, they locked into the slinky syncopations of “Rolling Vamp,” by Mr. Lake. Music Review: Tarbaby, Featuring Oliver Lake, at the Jazz Standard 2013-09-04T20:52:20Z Crosby, Stills and Graham Nash harmonize over two electric guitars picking modal chords, hinting at fleeting syncopations and suddenly declaring, “She shall be free.” David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Playing an ingenious arrangement, the four horns leaned on syncopations, pushed tempos relentlessly and otherwise upped rhythmic tension at every turn. 'Four Others' charge hard at Jazz Showcase 2011-04-01T15:34:00Z Keith Richards and Ron Wood, the Stones’ guitarists, played nonstop games of syncopation and suspense amid the band’s well-known riffs, while Mr. Jagger raced all over the stage without missing a note. Review: At Desert Trip, Rocking Beyond the Hits With a Vengeance 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z These orchestrations are complicated, taking on unexpected syncopations and allowing guitars and keyboards to chunk-chunk-chunk or squeal away in different directions. Sondheim goes ‘crunch’ in prog-metal ‘Sweeney Todd’ 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Acoustic guitars and percussion set up an intricate mesh of syncopation, and in his gentle tenor, with hushed backup vocals overhead, Sessa sings, “To the sound of the drums I’ll consume you.” Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z He approached both with the whimsy of a beatnik: looseness, fondness for syncopation and countermelodies, liberal use of the damper pedal, cadenzas rhapsodic to the point of volatility. SCO/Piotr Anderszewski/Alexander Janiczek ? review 2010-10-24T21:31:00Z I watched the whole festival with the longing of a Balanchine admirer born too late for the City Center years, but when the syncopations were bouncing to Bach, I wasn’t thinking of history. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z The syncopation of transparent and opaque windows, alternating with ashlar panels, can suggest the patterns of kente cloth. In Harlem, a Playful New Youth Center Is an Instant Landmark 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Consider “In Stitches,” which exerts an accretive force, moving from barest breeze to prairie twister; consider the shrewdly lurching syncopations on “Wolf Out” and “Seven Minute Mind.” New Music: New Albums From Bad Plus and the Dave King Trio 2012-09-24T21:53:19Z And while the carnival syncopations of “Black Hands Bejewelled” could have been more precisely played, its festive atmosphere was welcome and convincing. Henry Threadgill Festival at Harlem Stage 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z To match “Hombre Invisible,” on which Ms. Guerra collaborated with leading Latin alternative rockers, her stage band was centered on rock guitar, flanking her voice with power chords and wah-wah syncopations. Music Review: Versatile Voice From Mexico, in Rock Mode 2010-09-27T23:42:00Z It has an insistent but implied beat, many layers of overt and implied syncopation, and a determination to keep changing. Cécile McLorin Salvant Branches Out, and 7 More New Songs 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Another under-heralded talent is Lipa’s ability to nail complex syncopations and wordy passages on and around the beat, perhaps owing to her early hip-hop fandom growing up in London, then Kosovo. Dua Lipa’s Unplanned, Uncertain, Unprecedented Album Launch 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z In the “Mack the Knife” captured on “Darin At the Copa,” his voice sounds grittier than on the hit single, and his syncopation is more playful. Bobby Darin Who? Jonathan Groff Gets It Now 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z And the performers deploy their flawless syncopation brilliantly. "Reservation Dogs" is steeped in pop culture. The difference is that its homages star Native actors 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z It starts with twitchy attacks and layers on increasingly funky syncopations, but the sustained tones of a synthetic choir seep in to dissolve and drown it all. The Playlist: An Indie-Rock Supergroup Is Born, and 9 More New Songs 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Their leads often pause or skip into syncopation instead of racing straight through, and they’re not locked into rigid, foot-stamping tempos; it’s music geared to listeners, not dancers. Music Review: Chris Thile & Michael Daves at the Allen Room - Review 2012-01-14T00:30:25Z In conversation, as in her songs, her voice often carried a tune, with bursts of syncopation as she explored an idea or a feeling. Aoife O’Donovan’s Songs Poured Out When Touring Shut Down 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z The rhythms were right-angled — syncopations waiting for downbeats rather than complementing them, swinging sections more conscientious than carefree — but the colors were bold and vibrant. Review | The National Philharmonic presents and proposes music of black composers 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z But in between he went instrumental, layering the steady beat with Minimalist arpeggios and percussion textures, revealing tiers of pulse and syncopation, blurring and focusing sounds to carry the music into a wilderness of rhythms. Music Review: Electric Daisy Carnival at Citi Field 2013-05-19T22:05:31Z When it’s his turn to solo, he veers in wide curves around the harmony and seems to be fighting with the bassist Chris White and the drummer Art Lewis over where the syncopation should be. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s a celebratory assemblage of Bernstein-ian gestures: blaring brass, big crescendos à la “West Side Story,” syncopation and jazzy intonations. Alexei Ratmansky: From Hibernation to Bubble Bernstein 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z In the context of this concert, some of Mr. Carmona’s multiple turns could seem like boilerplate, but he adapted to jazz syncopations with winning playfulness. Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Her pop soprano gets pitched further upward as the track begins; elusive background vocals and synthesizers puff their syncopations around the beat. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Writing was a salve for her, she said, but she wasn’t expecting the music, with glimmers of the hip-hop syncopation that have been her hallmark, to connect so deeply. Kelsea Ballerini Is Ready for Lift Off 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z In “Night Light,” for instance, the narrator’s paranoia banks down and flares up with a pattering snare-drum beat and chords that shift from sustain to syncopation. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z Her voice sailed through every syncopation as she danced. At Globalfest, Rowdy Sounds From Around the World 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z In the Scherzo, Aizuri’s syncopations were playful yet meticulous while, in the finale, the quartet bided its time, allowing the icy melancholy to melt into radiant sunbeams. In Aizuri Quartet, a natural bond and a captivating performance 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z In much of his rhythmic adventure, Mr. Parker relies on thuds, stomps and pratfalls to illustrate beats and syncopations. Dance Review: ‘Nut/Cracked,’ a Holiday Ballet by David Parker 2012-12-21T22:15:45Z The live actors speak over and around this soundscape, echoing themselves in eerie syncopation. Review: ‘This Was the End,’ a Spectral Riff on Chekhov 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z The cycle, written 1946-48, is one of the last things Cage actually composed rather than created through chance procedures, and it's an hourlong sonic wonderland of fragmentary melodies, scurrying syncopations and lullaby-like beauty. An early marking of John Cage's 100th birthday 2012-02-18T00:27:37Z Still, there is the daring and free-spirited Ms. Zaghini, who manages to infuse the most hectic movement with a jazzy syncopation. Dance Review: Geneva Ballet and Melodrama at the Joyce 2014-03-26T21:09:38Z Headlining is Silver Spring talent J. Addo, a soulful singer whose moody songs brim with hip-hop energy and slink with the syncopation of Afrobeats — the latter a nod to his Ghanaian heritage. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The boogie-woogie backup vocals and quirky syncopation from the lyrics give the whole thing a lovable kiss of kitsch. Not-so-silent nights: Your guide to having a merry Christmas karaoke party 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Takeoff, part of the trio Migos, was a master of syncopation who represented a new vanguard of rappers in Atlanta. Time Warp 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z She could play two pianos at once with the composure of a queen, and was known for “swinging the classics,” adding syncopation and a boogie-woogie beat to Bach and Chopin. Perspective | McCarthyism silenced this Black icon. Now dancers are making noise. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Trifonov and the orchestra were also keenly locked, navigating stormy syncopation, militaristic buildups and outbursts of heated dialogue with grace and ferocity. Review | A lively NSO gala celebrates the extension of the Noseda era 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Most tappers at the time danced on their toes, but Bubbles brought his heels down, adding rhythmic complexity and syncopation. Review | Michael Jackson and Bob Fosse owe their moves to a man called Bubbles 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Foot percussion underpinned all that, the constant that every syncopation pulled against. I Can Always Feel Like I’m Back Home in Montreal by Tapping My Feet 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z The Caldwell piano, so rhythmically straight that it was almost cornball, contrasted with the swing and syncopation of the rhythm track.” Studio fights, ghost stories and more revelations in best-selling new bio on producer J Dilla 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Sorkin has a very singular narrative structure and syncopation, one that is very different from — to the point of being at odds with — the broad theatrical comedy of “I Love Lucy.” How miscast is Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball? Digging into the highs and lows of 'Being the Ricardos' 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Something about the syncopation makes it feel like a natural fit. Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z They both use a lot of rhythmic syncopation. Good 4 who? How music copyright has gone too far 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z In that way, her emergence itself has been 17 years in motion—in time for her to hear the deep-pocket syncopations of their collective whir. Marching to the Beat of the 17-Year Cicada Clock 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z His frenzied tapping at times added syncopation to the a cappella song fragments. Perspective | Enter Nathan Lane and Savion Glover, as Broadway opens its doors for the first time in almost 13 months 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z It works a lot like syncopation in music. Most brain activity is "background noise" — and that's upending our understanding of consciousness 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z The lyrics are nearly all monosyllables, and in singing the verses, Withers largely shuns syncopation, letting the words fall out precisely in time with the chord changes, one syllable per chord. It's time to cancel 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' Here's what should replace it 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z They have a common melodic contour, the melody’s doing a roughly mi, re, do, descent slowly over a melodic phrase with a lot of syncopation. Good 4 who? How music copyright has gone too far 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z It was “a different kind of syncopation pattern,” Dr. Otter said. Canada’s Sparrows Are Singing a New Song. You’ll Hear It Soon. 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Keyboardist Aaron Goldberg injects bits of wit by quoting “Summertime,” “Carmen” and “Swinging on a Star,” while Stefon Harris joins in on marimba to help a sextet find delightful syncopation in “Always There.” Review: Saxman Jimmy Greene’s album is spirited, spiritual 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z I close my eyes and try to keep hold of that sleepiness, whose call is still there behind the heart’s syncopation. ‘It’s as if I’m falling from a 50-storey building’: a year without sleep 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z The syncopations and intricate counterpoint create great complexity. Review: L.A. Master Chorale revives Golijov's startling prophetic, globally warmed 'Oceana' 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z That’s because, according to Hydrow founder and national team coach Bruce Smith, rowing has a tendency to encourage rhythmic syncopation with others. Old-style rowing machines and punching bags gain a new edge 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z He gave me “Alley Cat,” which had syncopation with it, and finally I was like, “I’m going to sit here and play until I know how to do that.” Jeff Goldblum Is Going Back to His Roots 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Take the song In Your Face, with its slowed-down Cuban ballroom syncopation and lyrics about a man who protects his conscience with a military fanfare and by forbidding himself to think. Cat Power: 'I didn’t know I loved myself when I was younger' 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Then we heard the tin roof of the building across the street rattling an increasingly rapid syncopation. At Typhoon’s Eye in Philippines, Whipping Debris and Fervent Prayers 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z It is the syncopation of those smart Jewish boys from the Bronx who made America laugh every week on “Your Show of Shows” and the crowded, emotionally fraught apartments in which they grew up. The young star from 'The Goodbye Girl' remembers the kindness of Neil Simon 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z “I had no idea what she was saying. It’s like a rap song. It’s so fast, and it has that syncopation. We had to break down the syllables,” she said. They're Gloria and Emilio Estefan, eight shows a week: How the stars of 'On Your Feet!' channel pop heroes 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Legal documents in the US allege it copies "the melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bass line, backing chorus, tempo, syncopation and looping". Ed Sheeran sued for ‘copying’ Let's Get It On 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Where “Xylophone” relies on syncopation, though, “Marimba” works through a related compositional element known as hemiola. Perspective | No, iPhone ringtones aren’t bad. They’re musically sophisticated. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z On the opening track of this duo’s new album, “Expedition,” Mr. Marsh’s sense of syncopation on the drum kit refers back to before even the establishment of jazz rhythm. null 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Yet the quintet has added Latin syncopation, Ethiopian jazz and psychedelic guitar to its repertoire. The band Woods, coming to Rock & Roll Hotel, has always rambled beyond folk rock 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z The result — a covers record riddled with the flubs and inventions of forgetfulness — was a jumble of intricate syncopations, vertiginous time changes and splintery guitar work. The Dirty Projectors Go Solo 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z When the Jews tell Pilate, “We have a law, and by the law he ought to die,” the music is oddly infectious, full of jaunty syncopations. Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z A hemiola is a specific type of syncopation, featuring three beats where you would intuitively expect two. Perspective | No, iPhone ringtones aren’t bad. They’re musically sophisticated. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The same radical syncopation was used on many of the other tracks, including classics such as Little Honey, Humpty Dumpty, They Got to Go and Thirty Pieces of Silver. Prince Buster obituary 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Yet, until his legs and brain began to lose syncopation, he was untouchable, literally and metaphorically. Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The syncopation of half-houses and voids acts like a grid, a framework, binding the community together, insuring visual continuity, encouraging variety. Alejandro Aravena, the Architect Rebuilding a Country 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The rhythm conveys mysterious vitality: the second time the “Herr!” chords sound, they fall on the second and fourth beats of the bar, in a kind of cosmic syncopation. Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Bubbles used the thump of the foot to “emphasize offbeat accents and to ground his more complex syncopations afforded by the tempo.” Tap’s Tangled History 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z No, because there wasn't enough syncopation to warrant any kind of insane strobing. Getting to the thrash point: a conversation with Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z That familiarity and extra work paid off, as Martin and Price found a syncopation that mesmerized Twins hitters: The only damage came on a solo homer run by Torii Hunter in the second inning. David Price Electrifies Toronto’s Fans With Debut for Blue Jays 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Those rock-and-roll classics got a skipping Cajun syncopation by drummer Drew Simon. Pine Leaf Boys join the Louisiana Swamp Romp at Wolf Trap 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The cantankerous Brit -- whose on and off stage antics were well-documented in the 2012 film "Beware of Mr. Baker" -- speaks through the language of syncopation, one best witnessed live. The Summer Concert Guide 2015: 36 D.C.-area shows to see this season 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z She is electronic music's new Bjork, a singer with an ear for weird, ambient syncopations and a trunk full of angular costumes that seem to puff her up to stage-filling proportions. For Zola Jesus, bureaucracy stopped the music. But not for long. With her voice dipping in and out of it, an initially unremarkable beat has taken on new punch and syncopation. Mary J Blige interview: 'The UK is a better place to make music than the States' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The vocal arrangement here is amazing and there is such an explosive syncopation to the whole song. Kimbra picks 10 of the best 90s tracks 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Tightly choreographed and precisely sung in this production, it is a delightful introduction to a clever musical that celebrates the joys of rhythm, rhyme and syncopation. | Long Island: A Review of ‘The Music Man’ at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport 2014-04-04T22:14:35Z It's where a lot of the syncopation and the improvisation come from. Savion Glover's tap-dancing mission 2014-04-03T23:49:18Z It's not just the imperial ambitions and the strategic balances - this was a world where politicians still wore frock coats and the seditious syncopations of ragtime were an affront to Christian decency. Aiming to change the outcome of WWI 2013-11-11T01:37:15Z There are no rhythmic surprises, or what is called syncopation, in most presentations of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” All about jazz, uniquely American music 2012-05-24T21:27:00Z The rhythm may be said to be a sort of spite-rhythm, very decisive in most cases, but most of the time in syncopation. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z It is the very kernel of the art of Paul Cézanne; rhythmic irregularity, syncopation, asymmetry. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z With impressive fluency, friends, family members and patients started asking me about random medications, the odd syncopations of those invented, polysyllabic pharmaceutical brand names – Viagra, Lipitor — rolling perfectly off their tongues. Well Blog: Using Symptom Checklists to Sell Drugs 2012-01-26T17:18:36Z His heart beat with syncopation when he rose at the first note of music. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Banjo music has natural syncopation, and its peculiarities undoubtedly originated the "rag-time" of our present-day imitations. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Dye said the "Notre Dame Victory March" derives from "ragtime rhythm" or syncopation. The band plays on: Notre Dame, Michigan fight songs, record crowd stir rivalry 2011-09-08T17:01:27Z Ping! mirrors the sounds and syncopation of a table tennis match in a piece of orchestral music. Olympic songs from ping pong and ding dong 2011-06-09T09:46:46Z Then they tried it again, saw something in it, but somehow could not get the swing of it, possibly on account of the syncopations. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z In the already-quoted 'Koromanti song,' we may observe the curious temporary change of rhythm in the second air, and the characteristic measure which prevails throughout the third air with its syncopation and almost baffling changes. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z A light murmur like the rustle of birds' wings went after them, and couples leaned from their tables to watch the perfect syncopation of their steps. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole This syncopation of scratch triggered the anger that had been building within him, slow and unnoticed. The Ethical Engineer The pace gradually quickens, the volume of sound increases and we are brought, through a series of pungent dissonances and stimulating syncopations, to a brilliant assertion of the first theme in D major. Music: An Art and a Language He moved slowly, painfully, one leg striking the pavement in syncopation, for it was sadly crippled by disease. Melomaniacs The effect of this peculiarity in their singing is, that there is commonly a feeling of syncopation about it. Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes 2011-02-28T03:00:31.280Z This was joy to her, this beautiful syncopation, this poetic marked time that reeled off the miles beneath her and would scarcely have shaken a pebble from her hat-brim. Tharon of Lost Valley Learn many styles of bass and syncopation—trick endings. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 He had a highly developed rhythmic sense, and in his fondness for syncopations, for contrasted accents and for complicated metric groups he is the logical successor of Schumann. Music: An Art and a Language He moved slowly, painfully, one leg striking the pavement in syncopation, for it was sadly crippled by disease. Melomaniacs The purpose of the time step is to get the syncopation into the dancing step, and establish the "tempo" of the dance. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession It opens with an idea for violins and bassoons, and goes on in a very buoyant and vigorous manner, with abundant syncopations, modulations, and unexpected incidents. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations In a remote corner of his mind the ticking of his watch sounded as a cold, measured rhythm, a metronome with delusions of syncopation. The Short Life The dreamy waltz had given way to the syncopation of a fox-trot, yet neither was aware of the passing minutes. The Fifth Ace The opening move51ment begins with a sotto voce syncopation that is very presentative of the curious audible silence of a forest. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions "What hellish syncopation!" thought poor Von Barwig mechanically, as he looked at the individual from whom issued the voice that sounded so like the bellowing of a bull. The Music Master Novelized from the Play The syncopation gives place to agreeable running work for the right hand, and this again to another subject in double notes, a very earnest melody. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Modern musical rhythm is so complex in its frequent employment of syncopations, "cross accents," et cetera, that the prospective conductor must study indefatigably if he is to unravel its apparently inextricably snarled-up threads. Essentials in Conducting Let any one try to realize a simple measure in syncopation. The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Nevin's first published work was a modest "Serenade," with a neat touch of syncopation, which he wrote at the age of eighteen. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Thus it happens sometimes that in a 5-stress line there are actually only four or three stresses: the rhythmic result being a syncopation of four or three against five. The Principles of English Versification The theme is three periods in length, the second opening with a syncopation. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Without doubt, Semitic tunes and musical intervals found their way to African ears, while, on the other side, African Negro drum-beats and syncopations must have influenced Berber, Moorish and thus perhaps even Spanish rhythms. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 And over all the American jazz music boomed and whanged its syncopation. Gigolo There is much syncopation, though nothing that is strictly in "rag-time;" banjo-figurations are freely and ingeniously employed, and the whole is a splendid fiction in local color. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions How far the variations may be carried, how much the ear may be depended upon for rhythmic substitution and syncopation, is determined by many things. The Principles of English Versification The third variation changes the mode to minor, and the musical treatment contains strong syncopations, implying much suppressed passion. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The changing nuance syncopations that give such expressive accent to the different solo verses sung by the Negro "leader" have all been caught and put upon paper. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 In this way may be explained their inclination to lapse from their own standard of rhythm into inexplicable syncopations. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula In the romanza, syncopation and imitation are much 135 relied on, though the general atmosphere is that of a nocturne, a trio of dance-like manner breaking in. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions In other words, the character of language rhythm is determined by the relative proportion of coincidence and syncopation. The Principles of English Versification There is a sour rhythm in the fellow and he will beat a pretty syncopation on them if the hurdy-gurdy will but stick to marching time. Journeys to Bagdad The dancing sticks beat the floor in a low, sensuous syncopation that stirred the blood. Where the Sun Swings North The typical Hawaiian rhythm is a measure of four beats, varied at times by a 2-rhythm, or changed by syncopation into a 3-rhythm. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula A subdued accentuation is got by the syncopation of the bass, and the yearning tenderness of the ending finishes an exquisite song. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The greater freedom of syncopation and substitution, of extra syllables and unusual pauses, which characterizes Shakespeare's later blank verse, became almost a norm with Beaumont and Fletcher, Shirley, Ford, and the Jacobean dramatists. The Principles of English Versification In syncopation the normal system of accenting is temporarily suspended and the accented tone falls on the regularly unaccented part of the measure. Music Notation and Terminology These irregular forms of rhythm are called syncopation. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition Every musician will also note for himself the peculiar intervals and shadings of these melodies as well as the odd effects produced by rhythmic syncopation. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The result is an effect of syncopation which is peculiarly forceful. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art In verse also syncopation frequently occurs, though it is seldom recognized except as an 'irregularity.' The Principles of English Versification We heard a curious noise like a hymn played by bagpipes, rhythmically accompanied in syncopation by a very flabby drum. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia The music began, turning a song with comic words into something weirdly sensuous—strange syncopations, uneven, startling drum-beats—a mad tom-tom. The Plastic Age It went over the heads of most of the audience, but was greatly appreciated fey the limited few who were acquainted with the difficulties of accidentals, syncopations, and inverted musical phrases. Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life This is the most desirable form of syncopation. A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons The processes of our perception of rhythm are those of coordination, or partly subjective reduction of actual 'irregularities' to a standard of 'regularity'; this reduction being accomplished mainly by syncopation and substitution. The Principles of English Versification When a specific rhythm type is departed from, for the purpose of giving emphasis to a logically or metrically important measure, the change is characteristically in the direction of syncopation. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Kluge accepts gutturalizing of a palatal c before a consonant where this position is the result of syncopation of a palatal vowel. Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch Formally its distinctive characteristic is the familiar one—syncopation. Since Cézanne To cantus firmus b write two above and two below, three half-notes to the measure, with syncopations. A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons In Milton's ear, however, and in ours if we do not resist, there is a subtle syncopation of four beats against five. The Principles of English Versification The draughtsmanship leaves much to be desired; hands are carelessly painted, the grouping haphazard, without symmetry, the general rhythm full of syncopations, cross accents, and perverse pauses—empty spaces, transitions not accounted for. Promenades of an Impressionist Also the orchestra produced a substitute for old-fashioned stage suspense by long drawn-out syncopations. The Art of the Moving Picture Impudence is its essence—impudence in quite natural and legitimate revolt against nobility and beauty: impudence which finds its technical equivalent in syncopation: impudence which rags. Since Cézanne This species is the same as the second, except that the last note of the measure is tied to the first note of the next, forming a syncopation. A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons The processes of the subjective organization of rhythm may best be explained under the heads of coördination, syncopation, and substitution. The Principles of English Versification It is not quite so well defined here, however, as in the Dang-dang-ay, being modified in this song either by syncopation, by phrasing, or by lack of accent. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe Insensibly the pathetic melody faded away into the staccato beat of a geisha's song, with more rhythm than tune, which doubled and redoubled its pace, stumbling and leaping up again over strange syncopations. Kimono Certainly she "leaves out" with the boldest of them: here is syncopation if you like it. Since Cézanne The voluminous chords of the wedding march done in mad syncopation issued in a delirious blend from the saxophones and trombones—and the march began. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 His progress with shaving brush, shirt, collar and tie was marked by disjointed bars of the newest syncopation whistled with an uncanny precision and fidelity to detail. Cheerful—By Request If they had learnt what can be done with syncopation from Beethoven's third Leonora overture, they would enjoy the ragtimes all the more; but they would put them in their proper place as amusing vulgarities. Treatise on Parents and Children Some kept time with little jerks of the shoulder—the little hitching movement of the dancer whose blood is filled with the fever of syncopation. One Basket He took that syncopation too fast in the beginning. The Song of the Lark The music came down the street and passed beneath the window, accompanied by the care-free shuffling of a pair of old shoes scuffing syncopations on the cement sidewalk. Penrod Some kept time with little jerks of the shoulder—the little hitching movement of the rag-time dancer whose blood is filled with the fever of syncopation. Cheerful—By Request The words running along to a stuttering syncopation that filled her with self-disgust as she sang them. Star-Dust The chase went forward with some verisimilitude, and yet with a symbolic syncopation that indicated the Lion Dance was a very ancient and conventional ceremony. The Leopard Woman In ten minutes we were seated chair-tilted on the veranda, and slowly, very cautiously, in abbreviated syncopation, were feeling our way toward an intimacy. The Forest Cadenzas, glissandos, arpeggios, chromatics, syncopations, blue melodies—these are the embroidery of sound. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago The voluptuous chords of the wedding march done in blasphemous syncopation issued in a delirious blend from the trombones and saxophones—and the march began. Tales of the Jazz Age With its breath-catching syncopations and narrow emotional range, the A minor study has nevertheless moments of power and interest. Chopin : the Man and His Music To examine ragtime rhythms and the syncopations of Schumann or of Brahms seems to the writer to show how much alike they are not. Essays Before a Sonata He gave up his coat and hat, and went back into that room of false joy and syncopation. Who Cares? a story of adolescence He went forth, whistling syncopations, and began a brisk trudge into the open country. Ramsey Milholland Her speech lost its quality of syncopation; the whole expression of her face changed; and in the hazel eyes a deep concern might be read. The Yellow Claw He was lionized in society and he wrote to Titus that his heart beat in syncopation, so exciting was all this adulation, social excitement and rapid gait of living. Chopin : the Man and His Music "Home Ain't Nothing Like This" was thrummed from the rusting wires with true vaudeville dash and syncopation. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Years ago he had outgrown cabaret mania and recovered from the fascination of syncopation. Who Cares? a story of adolescence With a red and royal intoxication, A tangle of sounds And a syncopation, Sweeping and bending From side to side, Master of dreams, With a peacock pride. The Congo and Other Poems |
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