fugue
pronunciation
How to pronounce fugue in British English:
UK [fju:g]
How to pronounce fugue in American English:
US [fjuɡ]
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- Noun:
- 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
- a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
- a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
Word Origin
- fugue
- fugue: see refuge
- fugue (n.)
- type of musical composition, 1590s, fuge, from Italian fuga, literally "flight," also "ardor," from Latin fuga "a running away, act of fleeing," from fugere "to flee" (see fugitive (adj.)). Current English spelling (1660s) is from the French version of the Italian word. A Fugue is a composition founded upon one subject, announced at first in one part alone, and subsequently imitated by all the other parts in turn, according to certain general principles to be hereafter explained. The name is derived from the Latin word fuga, a flight, from the idea that one part starts on its course alone, and that those which enter later are pursuing it. ["Fugue," Ebenezer Prout, 1891]
Example
- 1. This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue .
- 2. Your fugue state , was that some sort of cover ?
- 3. J.s. bach : prelude and fugue for clavichord .
- 4. The organist played a fugue using two keyboards and the pedals .
- 5. Composers began writing in more complicated musical forms such as the fugue chaconne passacaglia toccata concerto sonata and oratorio .