

Discursive repetition is, "both repetitive and non-repetitive," (Lott, p. 174), such as the repetition of the same rhythmic figure with different notes.ĭuring the Classical era, musical concerts were highly expected events, and because someone who liked a piece of music could not listen to it again, musicians had to think of a way to make the music sink in. (p. 146–148) Put more simply, musematic repetition is simple repetition of precisely the same musical figure, such as a repeated chorus.

Discursive repetition is most often nested ( hierarchically) in larger repetitions and may be thought of as sectional, while musematic repetition may be thought of as additive. Discursive repetition includes linearity, rational control, and self-sufficiency.

Musematic repetition includes circularity, synchronic relations, and openness. A museme is a minimal unit of meaning, analogous to morpheme in linguistics, and musematic repetition is "at the level of the short figure, often used to generate an entire structural framework." Discursive repetition is "at the level of the phrase or section, which generally functions as part of a larger-scale 'argument'." He gives "paradigmatic case": the riff and the phrase. A template letter may be requested from your Employee Relations Consultant.Thus Middleton (also 1999) distinguishes between discursive and musematic repetition. Contact your Employee Relations Consultant as well as the appropriate policy or contract for more information. Notify the employee of their appeal rights, if appropriate.ĭepending upon the contract or personnel program the employee is covered by, a letter of intent to suspend may be required, which provides the employee with the right to appeal the intended action to the next higher management level before the action is implemented.State the supervisor's expectations and the consequences of failure to improve.Describe the problem, the previous corrective measures, and the impact of the continued behavior or performance.Inform the employee of the number of days they will be suspended with the beginning and ending dates.

