| 单词 | syncopation |
| 释义 | syncopation /sing'keuh pay"sheuhn, sin'-/, n. 1. Music. a shifting of the normal accent, usually by stressing the normally unaccented beats. 2. something, as a rhythm or a passage of music, that is syncopated. 3. Also called counterpoint, counterpoint rhythm. Pros. the use of rhetorical stress at variance with the metrical stress of a line of verse, as the stress on and and of in Come praise Colonus' horses and come praise/The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies. 4. Gram. syncope. [1525-35; < ML syncopation- (s. of syncopatio), equiv. to LL syncopat(us) (see SYNCOPATE) + -ion- -ION] |
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