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de maneira sincopada

English translation: syncopated

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Portuguese term or phrase:de maneira sincopada
English translation:syncopated
Entered by: Cris Valadares

01:14 May 6, 2016
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / samba
Portuguese term or phrase: de maneira sincopada
Bossa Nova - É o gênero musical brasileiro mais influente no cenário internacional. Trata-se de uma conjugação de samba e jazz, acentuando os contratempos de maneira sincopada, com a utilização de acordes dissonantes de passagem.
Cris Valadares
Brazil
Local time: 02:57
syncopated
Explanation:
Syncopated functions here as an adjective. What kind of offbeats [contratempos]? Syncopated offbeats. "accentuating the syncopated offbeats"
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Holly Holmes
Canada
Local time: 01:57
Grading comment
Thank you!!!!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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5 +2syncopated
Holly Holmes
3syncopating
David Hollywood


  

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
syncopating


Explanation:
by syncopating counterpoints

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Note added at 3 hrs (2016-05-06 04:40:29 GMT)
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https://books.google.com.ar/books?isbn=1443858706 -
Jonathan Wainwright, ‎Joseph Knowles, ‎Andrew Cheetham - 2014 - ‎Music
Examples 2.5 and 2.6 highlight the use of three different harmonic techniques—simple, syncopated and diminished counterpoint—within one and the same work ...

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Note added at 3 hrs (2016-05-06 04:55:56 GMT)
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by syncopating (and thus highlighting) counterpoints

(to include the "acentuando" aspect)

David Hollywood
Local time: 02:57
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
syncopated


Explanation:
Syncopated functions here as an adjective. What kind of offbeats [contratempos]? Syncopated offbeats. "accentuating the syncopated offbeats"

Example sentence(s):
  • The guitarist Bill Frisell rolls and slides the sultry chords of ''Crepuscule With Nellie,'' and lobs syncopated offbeats against the saxophones of Joe Lovano and Dewey Redman in ''Straight No Chaser.''

    Reference: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/20/arts/sounds-around-town-du...
Holly Holmes
Canada
Local time: 01:57
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PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thank you!!!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Matheus Chaud
10 hrs
  -> Thanks, Matheus!
agree  Mario Freitas:
11 hrs
  -> Thank you, Mário!
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