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Fugue Common

Fugue has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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
1

To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
dissociative disorder psychological state classical music
Rhyming Words
gue ague orgue bogue vogue logue gigue digue segue cogue rogue hogue hague togue vague pogue argue bague coigue feague
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