Word Frequency
fugue (fjuːɡ
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Definitions
noun
- a musical form consisting essentially of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below the continuing first statement
- (psychiatry) a dreamlike altered state of consciousness, lasting from a few hours to several days, during which a person loses his or her memory for his or her previous life and often wanders away from home
Derived Forms
ˈfugueˌlike adjectiveWord Origin
C16: from French, from Italian fuga, from Latin: a running away, flightExample Sentences Including 'fugue'
Finger-nail scrapings, semen, carpet fibres and last meals create a grotesque fugue of evidence.Irish Times (2002)
He and his men had passed the centuries in a kind of fugue state.COLDHEART CANYON (2001)
Instead the miked floor allows the percussive feet to shape the intricate pattern of the fugue that the steps create.Independent (1998)
Once returned they have no Anger memory of their period in fugue.Know Your Own Mind
SIMON BELL, Assistant Organist of Westminster Abbey, will play Bach's Fantasia and fugue in G minor and his Piece d'orgue.Sun, News of the World (2002)
Samadhi and fugue and simultaneity, all the states of computer consciousness.The Broken God
To strains of a Bach fugue the procession moved down the aisle, the parson, the coffin, the widow, her face obscured by a black veil.Double Deceit
``For example, you can play a Bach fugue on a quartet of tubas or a xylophone and it's still the same fugue.The Mercury, Sunday Tasmanian (2005)
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