Talk:Syncopation (dance)
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After some reading I was tempted to add the following piece
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- In Ballroom dancing the term "syncopated timing" has traditionally been used in reference to patterns when a beat is split and an extra step is taken. An example would be the Syncopated Lock Step figure of Quickstep performed with the timing q&qqqqS.
However after some thought I came to conclusion that the above explanation, although commonly heard, is in fact misleading and hides the "true" nature of syncopation in the Syncopated Lock: the first lock is indeed syncopated in musical sense: the overall rhythmic feeling is q&QqqS (the second Q feels accented due to longer time interval between steps 3 and 4 compared to interval between steps 2 and 3). `'mikka (t) 08:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
