Fugue

/ˈfyɡ/ · noun

Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (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.
2. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
3. (psychiatry) A fugue state.
4. To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
5. (intransitive) To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.

Example Sentences

Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.

And most of them women, and these only stayed in a fugue state for a relatively short time, like a couple of hours or a couple of days. As far as we know Malenov fugued for close to twenty years.

Fugue states can have phases—it's possible she fugued from the start, and only woke to what was happening on that bus.

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• fugues
• fuguing
• fugued

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