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Syncopation vs Legatura - What's the difference?

syncopation | legatura |

As nouns the difference between syncopation and legatura

is that syncopation is (music) the quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter while legatura is (music) a tie or brace; a syncopation.

syncopation

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (music) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter
  • (phonology) The loss of sounds in the middle of a word.

    • Derived terms

    * syncopational * syncopationally

    Related terms

    * syncope

    legatura

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music) A tie or brace; a syncopation.
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