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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
is always a great word to know.
So is quarter rest. Does it mean:
| rest equal in time value to an eighth note |
| rest equal in time value to a quarter note |
Example Sentences
- Dissociative fugue or dissociative amnesia is a rare but intriguing emotional disorder.
- Maybe novelists can go into some kind of fugue state while they're writing and it's enjoyable.
- Even in this fugue of misery, they understand and accept the situation.
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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
EXPANDby one part and answered by other parts, according to certain rules."
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
fugue (fy&oomacr;g)
n.
A pathological amnesiac condition that may persist for several months and usually results from severe mental stress, in which one is apparently conscious of one's actions but has no recollection of them after returning to a normal state.
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Computing Dictionary
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)
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