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After a rumbling, brief introduction, the first full piece in the suite — “Odesa Railway Station” — progresses with piano syncopations redolent of silent film accompaniment.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022
In that way, her emergence itself has been 17 years in motion—in time for her to hear the deep-pocket syncopations of their collective whir.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2021
What’s surprising is the music, John Adams’s “Son of Chamber Symphony,” which is more varied and less rhythmically regular than usual for him, piling on jazzy syncopations, thematic phrases and brassy flares of sound.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2021
“There are no syncopations, no blue-notes and no jazz feeling in their parts,” he told Kozinn.
From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2020
Ragtime47 , for example, would hardly be ragtime without the jaunty syncopations in the melody set against the steady unsyncopated bass.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
