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fugue
n. type of musical composition


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Fugue
In music, a fugue (IPA: ) is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as "voices", irrespective of whether the work is vocal or instrumental. In the Middle Ages, the term was widely used to denote any works in canonic style; by the Renaissance, it had come to denote specifically imitative works. Since the 17th Century the term fugue has described what is commonly regarded as the most fully developed procedure of imitative counterpoint. A fugue opens with one main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice in imitation; when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete; usually this is followed by a connecting passage, or episode, developed from previously heard material; further "entries" of the subject then are heard in related keys. Episodes and entries are usually alternated until the "final entry" of the subject, by which point the music has returned the opening key, or tonic, which is often followed by closing material, the coda. In this sense, fugue is a style of composition, rather than fixed structure. Though there are certain established practices, in writing the exposition for example, composers approach the style with varying degrees of freedom and individuality.
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Fugue
Fugue a pathological state of altered consciousness in which an individual may act and wander around as though conscious but their behavior is not [more]Fugue - Community and Resources

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fugue
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1. 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
(synonym) psychogenic fugue
(hypernym) dissociative disorder
2. a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
(hypernym) psychological state, mental state
3. a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
(hypernym) classical music, serious music


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n. fugue, elopement

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