Fugue

Quick meaning: Fugue is a noun meaning Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (psychiatry) A fugue state.
2. To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
3. (intransitive) To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.
4. (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.

Example Sentences

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

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.

Word Forms

• fugues
• fuguing
• fugued

Synonyms for fugue

Depending on context, synonyms include fuga.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include harmony, flight, escape, fuga, fugato, fughetta.

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