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That note
Paradigm and Syntagm are terms from semiotics,an areaof philosophy that
looks at how meaning works. The term paradigm shift was popularized by
Thomas Kuhn in the structure of Scientific Revolutions,in which he argues
that the new ways of understanding come from the outsiders,cause the
insiders havetoo much invested in maintaining the established view.
Syntagm refers to things like temporal/spatial qualities that are more or
less permanent.Like the overall rules of sentence structure,whereas
paradigms are, like nouns, verbs and adjectives,interchangeable elements
that are employed to express a particular thought . In music the quality
sounds coming in sequence,because of linear time,the frequency range of
human hearing and the way sounds resonate in space could be called
syntagmatic,while notes, beats timbres ,silences in the flow of a piece
are
paradigmatic.