Meanings
- not comparableentertainmentOf or relating to the theory that imitation is the ultimate organising force in music.
Half arrowheads are indicative of difference and are used in a zygonic context to show approximate imitation.
2006, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music, page 1432 more examples
The following account of the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata K.333, which focuses largely on the opening bars, is intended to demonstrate zygonic theory in action in a music-analytical context.
2005, Adam Ockelford, Repetition in music: theoretical and metatheoretical perspectives, page 35This research showed that a zygonic approach could provide an intuitively persuasive metric for the fluctuating patterns of musical influence as they unfolded, event by event.
2012, Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, Laura Mitchell, Music, Health, and Wellbeing, page 290
Origin
- Ancient Greekζυγός“yoke”
- Englishzygonic
Introduced by Adam Ockelford, from Ancient Greek ζυγός (zugós, “yoke”) + -ic.
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