Etymology

museme

M3U1S1E1M3E1

Today it means: A minimal unit of musical meaning, analogous to a morpheme in linguistics. Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.