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Related Terms:
fugue state
melody
fuguist
music
voice
fugato
fuga
contrapuntal
fughetta
dux
subject
fugacious
fuguelike
exposition
comes
infinite
codetta
fugal
stretto
contrapunctus
ricercata
Definitions:
Noun
fugue
psychogenic fugue
Definition: dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create 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
fugue
Definition: a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
fugue
Definition: a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
Definition: 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.
Verb
Definition: To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.