Definitions for fugue
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. fugue, psychogenic fuguenoun

   dissociative disorder in which a person forgets 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

2. fuguenoun

   a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days

3. fuguenoun

   a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fuguenoun

   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

2. fuguenoun

   Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. FUGUEnoun

   In musick, some point consisting of four, five, six, or any other number of notes begun by some one single part, and then seconded by a third, fourth, fifth and sixth part, if the composition consists of so many; repeating the same, or such like notes, so that the several parts follow, or come in one after another in the same manner, the leading parts still flying before those that follow. John Harris

   Etymology: French, from fuga, Latin.

   The reports and fugues have an agreement with the figures in rhetorick of repetition and traduction. Francis Bacon, Nat. Hist.

   The skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues; or through the whole symphony artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer. John Milton, on Education.

   His volant touch
   Instinct through all proportions, low and high,
   Fled, and pursu’d transverse the resonant fugue. John Milton, P. L.

   Long has a race of heroes fill’d the stage,
   That rant by note, and through the gamut rage;
   In songs and airs express their martial fire,
   Combat in trills, and in a fugue expire. Addison.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fugue

   In music, a fugue () is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the course of the composition. It is not to be confused with a fuguing tune, which is a style of song popularized by and mostly limited to early American (i.e. shape note or "Sacred Harp") music and West Gallery music. A fugue usually has three main sections: an exposition, a development and a final entry that contains the return of the subject in the fugue's tonic key. Some fugues have a recapitulation.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.Most fugues open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice (after the first voice is finished stating the subject, a second voice repeats the subject at a different pitch, and other voices repeat in the same way); when each voice has completed the subject, the exposition is complete. This is often followed by a connecting passage, or episode, developed from previously heard material; further "entries" of the subject then are heard in related keys. Episodes (if applicable) and entries are usually alternated until the "final entry" of the subject, by which point the music has returned to the opening key, or tonic, which is often followed by closing material, the coda. In this sense, a fugue is a style of composition, rather than a fixed structure. The form evolved during the 18th century from several earlier types of contrapuntal compositions, such as imitative ricercars, capriccios, canzonas, and fantasias. The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) shaped his own works after those of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667), Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643), Dieterich Buxtehude (c. 1637–1707) and others. With the decline of sophisticated styles at the end of the baroque period, the fugue's central role waned, eventually giving way as sonata form and the symphony orchestra rose to a dominant position. Nevertheless, composers continued to write and study fugues for various purposes; they appear in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) and Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), as well as modern composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975).

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1. fugue

   A fugue is a style of composition in classical music, developed during the baroque period, that is characterized by the systematic imitation or repetition of a principal theme (called the subject) in simultaneously sounding melodic lines (counterpoint). This musical form often begins with one independent voice, followed by others repeating the subject, generating a complex, overlapping texture of sound. A fugue typically has three sections: an exposition, a development, and a final entry that contains the return of the subject.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Fuguenoun

   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

2. Etymology: [F., fr. It. fuga, fr. L. fuga a fleeing, flight, akin to fugere to fiee. See Fugitive.]

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1. Fugue

   In music, a fugue is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and recurs frequently in the course of the composition. The English term fugue originated in the 16th century and is derived from the French word fugue or the Italian fuga. This in turn comes from Latin, also fuga, which is itself related to both fugere and fugare. The adjectival form is fugal. Variants include fughetta and fugato. A fugue usually has three sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation containing the return of the subject in the fugue's tonic key, though not all fugues have a recapitulation. 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. Most fugues open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice; when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete. This is often 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 to the opening key, or tonic, which is often followed by closing material, the coda. In this sense, a fugue is a style of composition, rather than a fixed structure.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Fugue

   fūg, n. (mus.) a form of composition in which the subject is given out by one part and immediately taken up by a second, its answer, during which the first part supplies an accompaniment or counter-subject, and so on.—n. Fug′uist, one who writes or plays fugues. [Fr.,—It. fuga—L. fuga, flight.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fugue in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fugue in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of fugue in a Sentence

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   In order to hack the Universe, you first have to find its fugue

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=fugue
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fugue
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=fugue
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fugue
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=fugue
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=fugue