Sentence examples for fixed forms from inspiring English sources

These forms were eventually simplified to become the formes fixes ("fixed forms") of the accompanied chanson.

Mr. Roberts exploits these American tensions -- between Old and New World, fixed forms and improvisation -- throughout.

Their mistake is usually to express themselves through fixed forms, a fate that might also befall some of the ingenious constructions in the British pavilion.

A talented technician, Machaut did much to popularize and develop the relatively new fixed forms: ballade, rondeau, and virelai (a short poem with a refrain).

Although the pantoum was introduced into Western literature in the 19th century, it bears some resemblance to older French fixed forms, such as the rondeau and the villanelle.

Particularly since that same sense of "gone -ness may or may not be able to be captured on fixed forms of home-media, devotees of Youngone -ness and Choi are encouraged to check out these live experiences, while they can.

The form started as a simple ballad-like song with no fixed form; this fixed quality would only come much later, from the poem "Villanelle (J'ay perdu ma Tourterelle)" (1606) by Jean Passerat.

These books never quite settle into a fixed form.

We get things, but they don't have fixed meanings, or even fixed form.

While a printed book has a fixed form, an e-book can change its spots.

His teachings later acquired a fixed form as the Code of Handsome Lake.