The Memetics of Music: A Neo-Darwinian View of Musical Structure and CultureThe purpose of this book is to show that memetics offers a new perspective on musical structure - which can be conceived as the disposition of memes within a work, at various hierarchical levels: musical style and musical style change. |
Contents
Memes in Music I | 23 |
Memes in Music II | 49 |
The Selfish Musical Meme | 109 |
Cumulative Selection and The Evolution of LargeScale Design in Music | 165 |
Issues and Methodologies | 205 |
Towards the Memetics of Music | 227 |
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The Memetics of Music: A Neo-Darwinian View of Musical Structure and Culture Steven Jan Limited preview - 2017 |
The Memetics of Music: A Neo-Darwinian View of Musical Structure and Culture Steven Jan Limited preview - 2017 |
The Memetics of Music: A Neo-Darwinian View of Musical Structure and Culture Steven Jan No preview available - 2016 |
Common terms and phrases
abstract Allegro allele analogous analysis antecedent archetypes argued articulation Beethoven biological brain Chapter co-adaptation cognitive coindexation complex composer concept configurations constraints context copying-fidelity cultural Darwinian Dawkins Dawkins's defined Dennett dialect Die Zauberflöte differential discrete distinction elements encoded engendered evolution evolutionary Example exist Figure foreground function genes and memes genetic Gjerdingen hierarchic human Humdrum i-rp value imitation implication individual information content instantiations interval intervallic J.C. Bach locus melodic meme pool memeplex memetic replication memory memotypic middleground mnemon Mozart musical memes musicology mutation Narmour natural selection neuronal nodes notes notion operation organization parameters particles patterns perception perceptual-cognitive salience perspective phemotypic pitch propagated psychological relationship representation represented rhythm rhythmic schema schemata segmentation selfish Selfish Gene sense sequence sonata sonata form specific structural meme structural-hierarchic Symphony teleology template tetrachord theory tonal top-down transmission unit unit of selection universal Darwinism Ursatz verbal-conceptual memes voice-leading