museme
English edit
Etymology edit
Brought to popularity by Philip Tagg, derived from the work of Charles Seeger.
Noun edit
museme (plural musemes)
- (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.