Jan, Steven (2015) A Memetic Analysis of a Phrase by Beethoven: Calvinian Perspectives on Similarity and Lexicon-Abstraction. Psychology of Music. ISSN 1741-3087
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Abstract
This article discusses some general issues arising from the study of similarity in music, both human-conducted and computer-aided, and then progresses to a consideration of similarity relationships between patterns in a phrase by Beethoven, from the first movement of the Piano Sonata in A flat major op. 110 (1821), and various potential memetic precursors. This analysis is followed by a consideration of how the kinds of similarity identified in the Beethoven phrase might be understood in psychological/conceptual and then neurobiological terms, the latter by means of William Calvin’s Hexagonal Cloning Theory. This theory offers a mechanism for the operation of David Cope’s concept of the lexicon, conceived here as a museme allele-class. I conclude by attempting to correlate and map the various spaces within which memetic replication occurs.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | M Music and Books on Music > M Music |
Schools: | School of Music, Humanities and Media |
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Depositing User: | Cherry Edmunds |
Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2015 15:53 |
Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2021 18:21 |
URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/23720 |
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