Music term; concept that a composition's meaning is entirely determined by its form.
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Examples for "formalism"
Examples for "formalism"
1Then there is the religious formalism of the Eppings and their friends.
2In such phrases, we grasp the essential difference between formalism and functionalism.
3At once-witha haste prudery and lovers of formalism might term indecent.
4And yet this prayer is first of all a protest against formalism.
5Any explanation would be futile of this branch of a forgotten formalism.