Replicating sonorities: Towards a memetics of music

Journal of Memetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-51

  Jan, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hierarchy; Meme; Memeplex; Memetics; Meyer; Music; Musicology; Schenker; Semiology; Style

Indexed keywords

DARWINIA;

EID: 2942651880     PISSN: 13664786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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