Music GCSE
Recognising syncopation in styles
What Recognising syncopation in styles means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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The effect of disturbing or playing with the expected pulse is common in jazz, pop, reggae and much twentieth-century music.
Topics that use Recognising syncopation in styles
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Tempo, metre and rhythm (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Contrast with straight rhythm
- Distinguishing rhythm devices
- Dotted rhythm
- Metre
- Note lengthening and shortening
- Rhythm
- Rhythmic stress
- Swung rhythm
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