- rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
- a style of American music having this rhythm, popular from about 1890 to 1915.
- a novel (1975) by E. L. Doctorow.
- a style of jazz piano music, developed by Scott Joplin around 1900, having a two-four rhythm base and a syncopated melody
