Syncopate

[Sarah]

To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters orsyllables from the middle; as, Gloster is a syncopated form ofGloucester.

[Zipporah Schumaker]

The rather difficult process of creating and [maintaining] [distinctly] different rhythmic assignments for each hand; relevant to most musical instruments, but in particular to the [piano].

[Julian]

Displace the beats or accents in (music or a rhythm) so that strong beats become weak and vice versa.

[Magaret]

to have a rhythm in which strong notes are not on the beat, or to create music that has this rhythm: