English

Adjective

zygonic ‎(not comparable)

1. (music) Of or relating to the theory that imitation is the ultimate organising force in music.
   • 2005, Adam Ockelford, Repetition in music: theoretical and metatheoretical perspectives (page 35)

     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.

   • 2006, Neil Lerner, Joseph Straus, Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music (page 143)

     Half arrowheads are indicative of difference and are used in a zygonic context to show approximate imitation.

   • 2012, Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, Laura Mitchell, Music, Health, and Wellbeing (page 290)

     This 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.

Related terms

• zygon