Fugue meaning

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A dissociative state, usually caused by trauma, marked by sudden travel or wandering away from home and an inability to remember one's past.
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The definition of a fugue is a musical composition for a specific number of parts or voices, or is a temporary state of amnesia.

An example of a fugue is a song written specifically for three voices.

An example of a fugue is forgetting the last ten minutes.

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A contrapuntal musical composition whose basic structure consists of a theme or themes stated successively in different voices.
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A musical composition for a definite number of parts or voices, in which a subject is announced in one voice, imitated in succession by each of the other voices, and developed contrapuntally.
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A dissociative state, usually caused by trauma, marked by sudden travel or wandering away from home and an inability to remember one's past.
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(music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
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Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
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A state of psychological amnesia during which the subject seems to behave in a conscious and rational way, but, upon return to normal consciousness, cannot remember the period of time nor what he or she did during it.
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Origin of fugue

  • Italian fuga (influenced by French fugue) (from Italian fuga) from Latin flight
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Borrowing from French, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugere (“to flee”). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts.
    From Wiktionary

Fugue Sentence Examples

  • Do you know what a dissociative fugue state is?

  • And what was played was a fugue--though Petya had not the least conception of what a fugue is.

  • The final chorale and fugue was an excellent example of togetherness on all fronts.

  • I tried to recall the terms Quinn had quoted; dissociative fugue, fugue state, entirely different personality.

  • After this the aria "Et in spiritum sanctum," in which the next dogmatic clauses are enshrined like relics in a casket, furnishes a beautiful decorative design on which the listener can repose his mind; and then comes the voluminous ecclesiastical fugue, Confiteor unum baptisma, leading, as through the door and world-wide spaces of the Catholic Church, to that veil which is not all darkness to the eye of faith.

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