[Ads-l] Antedating of "Syncopation" (Jazz)

[Chris Waigl]

How is syncopation in jazz linguistically different from syncopation in
other areas of musicology? It’s easy to find examples in music treatises
from the 1800s.

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 6:11 AM Shapiro, Fred <
00001ac016895344-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> syncopation (OED, 3.b., 1921)
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> 1916 San Francisco Chronicle 28 Aug.3 / 4 (Newspapers.com)
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> Mr. Gould renders a number of his own creations with that Jazz syncopation
> rarely ever heard above the Mason and Dixon line.
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> Fred Shapiro
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