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

 

 

- - - - - - - - syntax

= the will, intentionality


 

Middleton:

     musematicity  - - - - - - - - - - vs - - - - - -

= "psychic resonance"

 

 

- - - - - - - discourse

= "investment" of energy

 

Meyer:

     statistical parameters   - - - - - vs - - - - - - 

= physio-motor response

 

- - - syntactical parameters

= cognitive response