Fugue
noun
A kind of music composition where the same melody is played by different voices but starting at different times.
Bach's The Art of Fugue is a renowned example of the genre.
Often appears as...
- baroque fugue
- playing a fugue
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Technical
noun
A period of loss of awareness, often caused by stress or trauma, where a person might act normally but later cannot remember anything that happened.
After the accident, he was in a fugue state for several days.
Often appears as...
- fugue state
- dissociative fugue
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Academic
noun
A state of intense distraction or abstraction.
Lost in a fugue of his own thoughts, he barely noticed the sun setting.
Often appears as...
- lost in a fugue
- a fugue of thoughts
noun
A kind of music composition where the same melody is played by different voices but starting at different times.
Bach's The Art of Fugue is a renowned example of the genre.
Often appears as...
- baroque fugue
- playing a fugue
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A period of loss of awareness, often caused by stress or trauma, where a person might act normally but later cannot remember anything that happened.
After the accident, he was in a fugue state for several days.
Often appears as...
- fugue state
- dissociative fugue
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
noun
A state of intense distraction or abstraction.
Lost in a fugue of his own thoughts, he barely noticed the sun setting.
Often appears as...
- lost in a fugue
- a fugue of thoughts
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Pro Tip 1/3Music Genre
Used in classical music discussions, often linked with Baroque styles.
She specializes in playing fugues from the Baroque period.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Term
A technical term in music theory; not used in everyday language.
In my music theory class, we analyzed the structure of a fugue.
Pro Tip 3/3Imitative Technique
Fugue involves imitation, where one part copies another.
The violins start the theme, and the cellos enter with the fugue's imitation.
Pro Tip 1/3Music Genre
Used in classical music discussions, often linked with Baroque styles.
She specializes in playing fugues from the Baroque period.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Term
A technical term in music theory; not used in everyday language.
In my music theory class, we analyzed the structure of a fugue.
Pro Tip 3/3Imitative Technique
Fugue involves imitation, where one part copies another.
The violins start the theme, and the cellos enter with the fugue's imitation.
Pro Tip 1/3Music Genre
Used in classical music discussions, often linked with Baroque styles.
She specializes in playing fugues from the Baroque period.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Term
A technical term in music theory; not used in everyday language.
In my music theory class, we analyzed the structure of a fugue.
Pro Tip 3/3Imitative Technique
Fugue involves imitation, where one part copies another.
The violins start the theme, and the cellos enter with the fugue's imitation.
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become popular. By then, larger, more varied ensembles were the rule with woodwinds, brass, and percussion to help tell the tale. But Vivaldi pulled it off with just one violin, strings, and a harpsichord. Unlike his contemporary Bach, Vivaldi wasn't much interested in complicated fugues.
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in which he takes that cloud image, hallucinates, zooms, hallucinates, zooms hallucinates, zooms. And in this way, you can get a sort of fugue state of the network, I suppose,
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this is my fugue license after world war ii fugu fatality skyrocketed starving japanese would comb restaurant trash bins they'd salvage discarded fugu grill the
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Why should you listen to...
become popular. By then, larger, more varied ensembles were the rule with woodwinds, brass, and percussion to help tell the tale. But Vivaldi pulled it off with just one violin, strings, and a harpsichord. Unlike his contemporary Bach, Vivaldi wasn't much interested in complicated fugues.
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How computers are...
in which he takes that cloud image, hallucinates, zooms, hallucinates, zooms hallucinates, zooms. And in this way, you can get a sort of fugue state of the network, I suppose,
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Eating Poison Fish PIPE...
this is my fugue license after world war ii fugu fatality skyrocketed starving japanese would comb restaurant trash bins they'd salvage discarded fugu grill the
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Nicole Mones
American Novelist
In my own life I studied music, not creative writing; I see a novel as music - an opening as an overture, themes and subplots as lines in a fugue. The chance to write a novel about a musician boxed in by all kinds of limitations but who plays out his ultimate struggle for freedom at the piano was irresistible.
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Karen DeCrow
American Activist
I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish Composer
Listen to the triple fugue in 'Magnificat' - the first subject is seven voices, the second one has 52 different voices, the third uses five; then I combine all together. Such textures you cannot call primitive.
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Vladimir Horowitz
American Musician
Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues, but I had all of 'Gotterdammerung' in my fingers.
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Edna O'Brien
Irish Novelist
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?
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Alvin Ailey
American Dancer
We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.
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Maira Kalman
American Author
There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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Michael Tippett
English Composer
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
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Isaac Mizrahi
American Designer
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
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Helen Hayes
American Actress
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
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Nicole Mones
American Novelist
In my own life I studied music, not creative writing; I see a novel as music - an opening as an overture, themes and subplots as lines in a fugue. The chance to write a novel about a musician boxed in by all kinds of limitations but who plays out his ultimate struggle for freedom at the piano was irresistible.
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Karen DeCrow
American Activist
I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish Composer
Listen to the triple fugue in 'Magnificat' - the first subject is seven voices, the second one has 52 different voices, the third uses five; then I combine all together. Such textures you cannot call primitive.
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Vladimir Horowitz
American Musician
Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concentrate on memorizing Bach fugues, but I had all of 'Gotterdammerung' in my fingers.
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Edna O'Brien
Irish Novelist
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?
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Alvin Ailey
American Dancer
We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.
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Maira Kalman
American Author
There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
Quote examples
Michael Tippett
English Composer
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.
Quote examples
Isaac Mizrahi
American Designer
If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
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Helen Hayes
American Actress
The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
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