1. The master of syncopation in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis at the turn of the twentieth century. 音乐中切分音的大师是斯考特·乔普林,他是位非裔美国作曲家,二十世纪之际在圣路易斯地区附近谱写了很多曲子。
2. What is syncopation? 什么是切分音?
3. Of course syncopation and blues are only part of the jazz picture. 当然,切分音和蓝调只是爵士的一部分。
4. Okay. So that's what syncopation is and it isn't much more difficult than that. 好了,这就是切分音,也并非很难理解。
5. This produces an effect called syncopation& another characteristic of jazz. 这便产生了切分音的效果。这种切分音是爵士音乐的另一个特征。