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idée fixe

 
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n., pl., i·dées fixes (ē-dā fēks').
A fixed idea; an obsession.

[French : idée, idea + fixe, fixed.]


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Term coined by Berlioz for a theme which recurs, perhaps obsessively, in different movements of a work (e.g. his Symphonie fantastique).


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(ē-dā fēks')
n., pl. i·dées fixes (ē-dā fēks').

A fixed idea; an obsession.

 
 

 

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