It is impossible to imagine modern musical styles without syncopation - the rhythmic element that gives the music dynamism and expressiveness. Syncope is divided into several types that musicians use in academic and non-academic music, as well as in various musical styles.
All About Syncope
Syncope is a rhythmic figure that disrupts the normal flow of a meter, shifting emphasis from a strong time to a fraction of a weak one, as a result of which real accents do not coincide with metric ones. When studying syncopes, it is important to understand what a strong and weak beat beat means - each beat, regardless of its strength, has a strong and weak time from which it starts.
Each beat begins with the length of time that a click of a real or imaginary metronome falls on - this time is strong, while the rest of the beat is considered to be weak.
The syncope was first described in treatises of the second half of the fifteenth century by a certain John Tinktoris. She was mentioned in his books on the art of counterpoint, musical terms, alterations and musical proportions. Hillelmo Monk also wrote about syncope, describing it as a prepared detention, since learned musicians do not use the concepts of a strong and a weak share. Today, syncopation is an integral element that gives rhythm to such styles of music as reggae, jazz, blues, soul, drum and bass, funk and some types of rock music. In addition, it is often used in derived styles.
