Fugue

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  • noun. A contrapuntal musical composition whose basic structure consists of a theme or themes stated successively in different voices.
  • noun. A dissociative state, usually caused by trauma, marked by sudden travel or wandering away from home and an inability to remember one's past.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In music, a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or even more themes, which are enunciated by the several voices or parts in turn, subjected to various kinds of contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. 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
  • noun. a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
  • noun. a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
    • Word Usage
    "And knowing what a fugue is can make you fall in love with Bach."
    cross-reference
    Wikipedia article on fugues  single fugue  
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    classical  classical music  dissociative disorder  mental condition  mental state  
    Rhyme
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    skoog  
    Same Context
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    concerto  counterpoint  sonata  
    Synonym
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    agnosia  amnesia  blackout  canon  catalepsy  
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