ABSTRACT
An adequate investigation of syncopation, which is likely to favor the correlation of strong beats with stressed syllables when there is a time-lag between the two, is discussed in Chapter 6. One may view syncopation as a disturbance, or interruption, relative to a regular deep structure and distinct from the surface structure. The rhythm of the melody is, as it were, reconstructed and re-presented. The rhythmic analysis of some blues songs tends to show how syncopation plays a role in this reconstruction, or should we say interpretation. A synthesis brings together the main observations and serves as a conclusion to the chapter.
