From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Mon 26 Jan 2004 - 13:30:20 GMT
The Evolution of a ‘Memeplex’ in Late Mozart:
Replicated Structures in Pamina's ‘Ach ich fühl's’
Journal of the Royal Musical Association, "" 2003,
vol. 128, no. 2, pp. 329-370(42)
Jan S.
Abstract:
‘Memetics’, a concept most elegantly expounded by
Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene, asserts that
human culture consists of a multitude of units
transmitted between individuals by imitation and
subject to evolutionary pressures. Such particles,
‘memes’, are broadly analogous to the genes of
biological transmission. Four late pieces of Mozart's,
including Pamina's aria ‘Ach ich fühl's’ from Die
Zauberflöte, are examined in terms of the meme concept
and a conglomeration, or ‘memeplex’, consisting of
seven memes is identified within them. The nature of
the musical memeplex, in this specific case and also
more generally, is considered, particularly from the
perspective of its location at different levels of the
structural hierarchy. The evolutionary history of some
of Mozart's memes is examined with reference to
selected passages from works of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Finally, relationships between
the musical memes under investigation and memes in the
verbal-conceptual realm are explored.
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