Syncopation means
A. sliding into a pitch or “bending” the pitch.
B. lowering or flatting certain scale degrees.
C. stressing normally unaccented parts of a measure.
D. playing in two different meters at the same time.
ANS: C. stressing normally unaccented parts of a measure.
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