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Fugue

Fugue Meaning & Definition
Fugue Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fugue?

[n] a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
[n] a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
[n] dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who who they are and leaves home to creates a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fugue: psychogenic fugue

Related Terms | Find terms related to Fugue: agnosia | amnesia | blackout | canon | catalepsy | cataplexy | catatonic stupor | catch | daydreaming | daze | dream state | fugato | fugue state | hypnotic trance | loss of memory | reverie | rondeau | rondino | rondo | rondoletto | round | roundelay | sleepwalking | somnambulism | stupor | trance | troll | word deafness

See Also | classical music | dissociative disorder | mental state | psychological state | serious music

Fugue In Webster's Dictionary

\Fugue\, n. [F., fr. It. fuga, fr. L. fuga a fleeing, flight, akin to fugere to fiee. See {Fugitive}.] (Mus.) A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears. All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each other, like the parts of a fugue. --Jer. Taylor.

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