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/fjˈuːɡ/
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[ US /ˈfjuɡ/ ]
[ US /ˈfjuɡ/ ]
NOUN
- dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
- a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
How To Use fugue In A Sentence
- And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
- When I first heard these pieces, they reminded me of the Bach 48 preludes and fugues in form and coherence, if not in content and style
- Indeed, the fugue's subject is almost a twin to the opening theme of Flos campi.
- Mr. Klein plays Fender Rhodes, but it's hardly what you'd expect on your usual four-handed keyboard duo, even on the two duets, "Airport Fugue" and "Implacable. Friends, Sisters, Countrymen
- In music, composition students sat a preliminary examination consisting of a fugue and a short choral piece.
- Can you transpose this fugue into G major?
- I fell into a fugue state, thinking about him, then what Grady said that night in the boathouse. LEGAL TENDER
- Bach's "Art of the Fugue", specifically the point where Bach inserts as a countersubject the notes corresponding to the letters of his own name. The Bob Dylan song that turned on Jimmy Carter is the one that Barack Obama calls a favorite.
- Bach's contrapuntal mastery finds voice in Brahms's repeated use of fugue and passacaglia forms.
- If the Sonata be not suitable for London, I could send another, or you might omit the Largo, and begin at once with the Fugue in the last movement, or the first movement, Adagio, and the third the Scherzo, the Largo, and the Allegro risoluto. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826
