museme

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museme

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noun musemes

A minimal unit of musical meaning, analogous to a morpheme in linguistics. Having established extramusical 'meaning' at the micro level, one should proceed to the explanation of the ways musemes are combined, simultaneously and successively.

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@misc{museme_2026,
  title = {museme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/museme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}