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fugue
[ fyoog ]
noun
- 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.
- Psychiatry. a period during which a person experiences loss of memory, often begins a new life, and, upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase.
fugue
/ fjuːɡ /
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
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Derived Forms
- ˈfugueˌlike, adjective
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Other Words From
- fugue·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fugue1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fugue1
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Example Sentences
Research has shown that a fugue state may be induced by intensely emotional or stressful events.
Green, however, said: “They can no more be separated than the voices of a fugue.”
The guy showed up with a giant bottle of OxyContin that he had stolen from his mother and I slipped right back into a fugue state.
The sonnet is a sort of poetical fugue in which the theme ought to pass and repass until its final resolution in a given form.
I went down to the little parlor and tried the fugue on the piano, but could not remember the portion in question.
The music of the four-part fugue entered into him more deeply, and he began to hum its little phrases.
But like the theme in a fugue this loud tranquil recurrent need to Express me transcends them all.
It is customary to describe the music as a fugue, and, if that is so, no more unfugue-like fugue was ever penned.
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