Rebecca Leydon, Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes

Figure 2. Middleton's "repetition strategies"

MUSEMATIC repetition
  • repetition of "musemes," short motivic fragments
  • projects a single-leveled "groove"

DISCURSIVE repetition

  • repetition of syntactically complete units (e.g. phrases, strophes)
  • projects a hierarchically organized discourse