Rebecca Leydon, Towards a Typology of Minimalist Tropes
Figure 3. Three accounts of the signifying potential of musical syntax
| Cumming: gesture - - - - - - - - - - - - - - vs - - - - - - = physical movements of the body
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- - - - - - - - syntax = the will, intentionality
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| Middleton: musematicity - - - - - - - - - - vs - - - - - - = "psychic resonance"
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- - - - - - - discourse = "investment" of energy
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| Meyer: statistical parameters - - - - - vs - - - - - - = physio-motor response |
- - - syntactical parameters = cognitive response |