There was a story about a guy who wanted to find something he called “The Universal Song.” He said that it was a melody written by human nature, and someone on a different continent could “discover” the exact same song if they followed his methods. He fully charted out which sequences of notes harmonized, and which didn’t. But he was also really paranoid about hearing regular music, thinking that it would “infect” him and ruin the song. So he never went out in public, and developed several other neurosises.
In some other language, it means “small”.