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Anonymous
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| posted: 9/30/2005 at 11:28:07 AM ET
i am totally confused by the syncopation thing. i have an assignment to do and ineed to figure out if the hymn Christ the Lord is Risen Today has any sincopation in it? can anyone help me out please!!
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 maintube
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5/26/2004 | posted: 10/2/2005 at 11:34:06 PM ET
Syncopation is a rhythm where you have a long note between 2 short notes.
eighth-quarter-eighth
sixteeth-eighth-sixteeth
quarter-half-quarter
Usually a rock/jazz/latin thing but is used in ALL types of music. Not familier with the Hymn in question, but look for the rhythms I pointed out.
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 Pete
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3/20/2005 | posted: 10/2/2005 at 11:51:59 PM ET
I remember as an eight-year old music student hearing my teacher mention syncopation to an older student, and asking my rather deaf grandmother, who picked me up from lessons, what it was.
She said it came from not eating enough fruit....
A good example of syncopation is The Entertainer: da da DA da, da DA da DA, where the off-beat is accented.
Latin American music is almost all syncopated.
Baruch 3:14
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TheHornSupremacy
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11/17/2004 | posted: 10/3/2005 at 9:43:02 AM ET
.... and a pretty good bit of American music is sycopated too! Try counting out the beats the next time your listening to any radio station - it can get hard sometimes! Any time it's hard to hear the beats, you can bet there's syncopation involved.
As to the hymn in question, I have heard arrangements of the song that do use syncopation. But I would imagine that your assignment is based on the hymnbook version, and if that's the case then there is no syncopation.
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 trumpetgeek53
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7/20/2005 | posted: 10/3/2005 at 6:55:35 PM ET
I don't even kno what everyone is talking bout.
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Pete
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3/20/2005 | posted: 10/3/2005 at 11:37:44 PM ET
Imagine a marching band that, instead of marching 1 2 3 4, marches 1 AND 2 (a gap) ..34. The AND is the syncopated beat, in other words the accents fall on beats and fractions of beats that are not usual for the time signiture.
Reggae is a good example..ever hear Reggae in waltz-time, or 4/4?
Of course not, it's syncopated.
It makes music much more interesting.
Baruch 3:14
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 imnidiot
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3/28/2005 | posted: 10/4/2005 at 9:13:36 PM ET
If you want to hear an excellent example of syncopated drumming, listen to Roundabout by Yes, or other old Yes songs wit Bill Bruford on drums. Basicly, syncopation is accenting notes which wouldn't ordinarily be. 7/8 time is a good example, or 5/4 time.
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