Chela Sandoval, Lecture 2

Little by little we are starting to express ourselves the way Prof. Sandoval intends us to do.


A quick note:


Syncopation

in music, the displacement of regular accents associated
with given metrical patterns, resulting in a disruption of 
the listener's expectations and the arousal of a desire for 
the reestablishment of metric normality; hence the characteristic 
"forward drive" of highly syncopated music. Syncopation 
may be effected by accenting normally weak beats in a 
measure, by resting on a normal accented beat, or by tying 
over a note to the next measure.
Source: Dictionary.com


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