Crossword-Solution: SYNCOPATIONS 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 19

The music came down the street and passed beneath the window, accompanied by the care-free shuffling of a pair of old shoes scuffing syncopations on the cement sidewalk.

Every language is but the evolution of slang, and possibly the broad "A" in Harvard may have come down from the "butcher of Southwark." To examine ragtime rhythms and the syncopations of Schumann or of Brahms seems to the writer to show how much alike they are not.

With its breath-catching syncopations and narrow emotional range, the A minor study has nevertheless moments of power and interest.

Syncopations, suspensions, and chromatic passing notes form here the composer's chief stock in trade, displacement of everything in melody, harmony, and rhythm is the rule.

Cadenzas, glissandos, arpeggios, chromatics, syncopations, blue melodies--these are the embroidery of sound.