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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 443-465 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Psychology of Music |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 May 2015 |
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A memetic analysis of a phrase by Beethoven : Calvinian perspectives on similarity and lexicon-abstraction. / Jan, Steven.
In: Psychology of Music, Vol. 44, No. 3, 01.05.2015, p. 443-465.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Jan, Steven
PY - 2015/5/1
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AB - 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.
KW - Beethoven
KW - Hexagonal Cloning Theory (HCT)
KW - lexicon
KW - memetics
KW - museme
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