fugue
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noun
1.
Music. a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
2.
Psychiatry. a period during which a person suffers from loss of memory, often begins a new life, and, upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase.
Origin:
1590–1600; < French < Italian fuga < Latin: flight
1590–1600; < French < Italian fuga < Latin: flight
Related forms
fugue·like, adjective
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fugue (fjuːɡ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a musical form consisting essentially of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below the continuing first statement |
| 2. | 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 |
| [C16: from French, from Italian fuga, from Latin: a running away, flight] | |
| 'fuguelike | |
| —adj | |
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fugue
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Word Origin & History
fugue
1597, from It. fuga, lit. "flight," from L. fuga "act of fleeing," from fugere "to flee" (see fugitive). Current spelling is from influence of Fr. version of the It. word. Defined in Elson's Music Dictionary as "a composition in strict style, in which one subject is proposed
by one part and answered by other parts, according to certain rules."
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Fugue definition
language, musicA music language implemented in Xlisp.
["Fugue: A Functional Language for Sound Synthesis", R.B. Dannenberg et al, Computer 24(7):36-41 (Jul 1991)].
(1994-12-01)
Example sentences
Hung together, my art made for a kind of fugue in which each painting is a variation on a basic theme.
Dissociative fugue or dissociative amnesia is a rare but intriguing emotional disorder.
Even in this fugue of misery, they understand and accept the situation.
Maybe novelists can go into some kind of fugue state while they're writing and it's enjoyable.
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