Syncopation

On March 30th, 2017 I attended a wonderful jazz concert at Prince George’s Community College. The concert was performed by a group titled The Reginald Cyntje Group. The Reginald Cyntje Group was comprised of five talented musicians: Herman Burney, Reginald Cyntje, Lenny Robinson, Brian Settles, and Hope Udobi. The group performed a song cycle of seven songs: “The Rise of the Protester,” “Ballad for the Masses,” “Chant of the Revolt,” “Descension and Ascension,” “No Justice No Peace,” “The Piece of

1. For the examples in the simple meter, the solmization could be briefly divided into two groups. The first group focuses on the metrical positions. Each beat in the measure is either spoken as numbers or specific syllables, and the subdivisions are either specified with distinct different syllables (e.g. the third and fifth one) or not as precisely defined (e.g. the forth one). The second group focuses on the duration of the notes, as seen in the last 3 examples. The sixth example assigns a specific

with a different sensation when enjoying music by straying away from a monotone rhythm. Syncopation is the most common way composers achieve this goal. Syncopation is defined as the “deliberate upsetting of the normal pattern of accents” (Rhythm & Meter). In other words, the accent is displaced from the strong beat in a measure to the offbeat, which falls in between stronger beats. In addition to syncopation, polyrhythm can produce a similar effect in throwing off regular accent patterns.

Ever wonder how an author can use elements of jazz in their novel. According to Toni Morrison novel “Jazz” it’s possible. The novel contains many jazz element to show her understanding of Jazz music like melodies, breaks, cutting contest, soloists, composers, musical language and even improvisation which are very important elements in Jazz music. The first two elements of jazz that shows her understand of jazz music in the novel is the basic melody of Morrison’s novel Jazz is when she introduces

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I have heard this popular melody in the movie “The Sting”, while I also feel that it resembles a sample used in the theme song of Charlie Brown. Syncopation is defined as a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm. It can also be described as the placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn’t normally occur. Syncopation is something that is often prevalent in jazz music, and “The Entertainer” is no exception and is one of the most popular pieces of music in the history

both have similar instrumentation and notation and they both have different derivatives and time periods. Funk is a groovy genre with many danceable features which uses key features such as syncopation and staccato and modern day pop uses these elements but adds its own modern sound including synthesizers etc. Both genres have many similarities and differences which will be expanded on

Gospel, has parallel streams of black and white Christian Gospel which is a mixed-race heritage. It is the origin of Soul music, which supplanted blues-based r&b. With emerging of the soul music, traditional urban black popular music has a new trends and direction. And it eventually became a sociological and political significance in American popular culture. Funk is a musical mixture which fuse some different types styles of music to create a soulful and rhythmic sound. Dance-tempo rhythm and blues-style

Results on paper prototype survey The Syncopate team has conducted a survey on professor Bob Lyons ' students in his Introduction to Music Industry class through survey monkey, which we believe demonstrates the potential and necessity of a app which provides music recommendation from family and friends instead of algorithms, and have more features than a ordinary music messaging app. Using survey monkey, we have gathered responses from undergrad music industry students, which are aware of current

I See Stars- New Demons Review I See Stars is back with their fourth album, entitled New Demons. The album was released on 10/22/2013, via Sumerian Records. It seems that they have been working quite diligently over these past few years, as it has only been one a half years since the release of their previous album, Digital Renegade. Although many people did not like that album, I enjoyed it a lot, and I thought it had many standout tracks such as “Gnars Attacks”, “NZT48”, “Digital Renegade”, and