Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" is Syncopation 101.
Peep http://music.mpr.org/features/9905_ragtime/index.shtml for the cutting
edge sound of 1890's music :)
ryan
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From: joni . [mailto:kitty429@hotmail.com]
syncopation- to put the accents on something other than the usual downbeat.
...It's putting emphasis on the "and's" of beats or in other words, the up
beats.
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