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- noun Plural form of
upbeat .
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Examples
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He said that all the complexity — the subdivisions, the metric modulation, the scurrying intervals — was because of his French connection, a French tendency to musically favor upbeats over downbeats.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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He said that all the complexity — the subdivisions, the metric modulation, the scurrying intervals — was because of his French connection, a French tendency to musically favor upbeats over downbeats.
Magna Carter (8): You've got a head start Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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But I looked over, I saw half of them were doing the upbeats on down bows and half of them were going down up, which gave them all a different rhythmic sense with their bodies.
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Electo Silva, slender and clearly old though ageless, and who bears a slight resemblance to Yoda in his beneficent smile, gave galvanic upbeats and then often stopped conducting, just standing to one side with that beatific smile on his face, just LISTENING.
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Electo Silva, slender and clearly old though ageless, and who bears a slight resemblance to Yoda in his beneficent smile, gave galvanic upbeats and then often stopped conducting, just standing to one side with that beatific smile on his face, just LISTENING.
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The only loser on a day of industrial upbeats was PG industries which went down ZC10 to finish the das, however, the trading was adversely affected by world gold and nickel prices - up 0,34 per cent and down 0,38 per cent over Wednesday respectively.
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The Norwegian Bridal Song, a Scene from Folks-Life, charms with its syncopations and upbeats, the trills and grace notes in witty taste.
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Across this fondly conceived and brilliantly executed album countless other upbeats suffer a similar fate.
CounterPunch 2010
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We are far from these upbeats available during some of their previous (but still good) albums.
AvaxHome RSS: Virginia Plain 2010
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The Norwegian Bridal Song, a Scene from Folks-Life, charms with its syncopations and upbeats, the trills and grace notes in witty taste.
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