museme

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A minimal unit of musical meaning, analogous to a morpheme in linguistics.

Word forms

museme musemes

Etymology

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

Related words

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