His fingertips played a syncopated pattern upon my throat.

They both relied on her "direct voice", which alternated steady rhythms with syncopated patterns and used similes and metaphors (e.g., the caged bird).

A guajeo is a typical Cuban ostinato melody, most often consisting of arpeggiated chords in syncopated patterns.

"The syncopated pattern is heard 'with reference to', 'in light of', as a remapping of, its partner."

Take traditional, polyrhythmic thumb-piano trance music from Congo, plinking away in dizzying syncopated patterns.

As I watched Arcade Fire, I realized that the drummer and the bassist rarely played syncopated patterns or lingered in the low registers.

The king and queen raise and lower their arms, undulating them in syncopated patterns.

Bacharach's music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, striking syncopated rhythmic patterns, irregular phrasing, frequent modulation, and odd, changing meters.

Fiddling from Appalachia, the most well-known style today, featuring heavy use of droning and double-stops as well as syncopated bowing patterns.

Ms. DiFranco still exercises her ingenuity as she stacks up various guitars into syncopated patterns and surrounds herself with her own vocal harmonies.