During piano playing and teaching, we should pay attention to rhythm changing of formal or informal rhythm, strong or weak beat, syncope or link line tercet or various slur.
The actors yelled their lines out, angry, pleading, arrogant, frantic, in a rhythm that was locked with or syncopated against the movements of their stalking legs.
It was as if the very air trembled with anticipation, as though the city itself had become an orchestra, harmonizing in syncopation with the music that permeated its soul.
From 1880 to World War I, New Orleans with its cafe and night club society became host to a new form of music based mostly on the blues, but also on marches and ragtime music.