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