museme

English

Etymology

Brought to popularity by Philip Tagg, derived from the work of Charles Seeger.

Noun

museme (plural musemes)

  1. (music) A minimal unit of musical meaning, analogous to a morpheme in linguistics.
    • 2000, Richard Middleton, Reading Pop : Approaches to Textual Analysis in Popular Music:
      Having established extramusical 'meaning' at the micro level, one should proceed to the explanation of the ways musemes are combined, simultaneously and successively.
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