Timeline for Do rap lyrics require metrical feet in English with long and short syllables?
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| Jan 10, 2018 at 16:58 | comment | added | DukeZhou | Thanks for the correction and clarification! Going to have to dig back into the origin and unique qualities of blues and jazz rhythms at some point, and find a more accurate way to characterize. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 16:56 | comment | added | Peter Shor | And this book says that the folk music of Kashubia (in Northern Poland) doesn't have the syncopation that is found in music from Central Poland. So my memory was correct. | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 16:54 | comment | added | DukeZhou | @PeterShor Yeah. The Wiki for Syncopation is entirely about early uses in classical music: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncopation#History. So possibly I should have couched it as "swing" and the type of "lag" that works it's way into modern music such as rock n' roll. (Music theory is not my strong suit.) | |
| Jan 10, 2018 at 16:50 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @DukeZhou: Chopin used a lot of syncopation in his compositions. I read somewhere that this was an element of Polish folk music that he incorporated into his music. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 22:45 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @DukeZhou: that's probably more or less true in American music. It's certainly not true for African, Polish, or some other types of music. | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 20:53 | comment | added | DukeZhou | My understanding is that we don't see syncopation until American Blues, which leads to Jazz. Rap lyrics have a forbearer in the best blues lyrics, which often include complex, internal rhymes. | |
| Jan 6, 2018 at 3:21 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @Hamlet: Why what pattern exists? Do you mean why some songs have long and short notes? Or why rap lyrics have complicated syncopation? Or why Yesterday and Sea Fever fall completely flat if you try to read them with equal length syllables? | |
| Jan 6, 2018 at 2:03 | comment | added | user111 | To get an upvote from me, this question would have to explain why this pattern exists. Good answers explain why and how. | |
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| Jan 6, 2018 at 1:24 | comment | added | ktm5124 | @PeterShor I just now looked at your initial answer and it's pretty good, certainly not meriting any down votes in my opinion. | |
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| Jan 6, 2018 at 1:23 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @kim5124: it actually wasn't anywhere near as good an answer before I revised it. | |
| Jan 6, 2018 at 1:23 | comment | added | ktm5124 | @DukeZhou Indeed, it's a great answer. Got my up vote. I think sometimes people flip a coin on down voting / up voting, hehe, or they roll a die and see whether it's odd or even. | |
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| Nov 9, 2017 at 18:29 | comment | added | DukeZhou | Great answer!!! (I'm surprised this was down-voted :( | |
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| Nov 9, 2017 at 17:01 | history | answered | Peter Shor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |