Syncopation
Accenting the weaker beats
Cross rhythms
Two different rhythmic groupings played at the same time
Polyrhythmic
Simultaneous use of different rhythms in separate parts of the texture
Ostinato
Repeated pattern
Anacrusis
Where music begins before first beat
Hemiola
Feeling of 2/4 in 3/4 time through use of accents
Triplets
3 notes played in the time of 2
Dotted rhythms
Lengthening a note value by half its value
Rubato
“robbed time”
Augmentation
Doubling original value of notes in a tune
Diminution
Halving original value of notes in a tune
Pause
Symbol- instructs performer to wait longer
Scotch snap
Two note pattern in dotted rhythm
Regular
Unsyncopated rhythms, “normal” values
Free-time
Absence of pulse