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Meanings of fugue in English

Russian
фуга
Portuguese
fuga
Spanish
análisis de una fuga
Catalan
fuges
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Contrapuntal musical form based on a subject that recurs in imitation.

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фуга

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.

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Examples for "fugal"
Examples for "fugal"
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In fact, fugal passages occur repeatedly in the course of this development.
The Masters and Their Music / A series of illustrative programs ...
2
It is strident and speaks out of turn; cacophonous, not fugal.
The Guardian
3
The voice of lamentation takes a fugal form-
A Second Book of Operas
4
The resemblance between this theme and Mozart's fugal subject is too plain to need pointing out.
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
5
Opening with a fugal first movement, the energetic second movement uses the lively rhythms of Hungarian fiddle music.
Radio NZ
1
Double counterpoint, imitation, fugue, or at least fughetta-thesehe returned to later.
Haydn
Usage of fugue in English
1
A nightmare certainly: a facsimile, perhaps, of something from a heroin fugue.
Complete Books of Blood
2
One strange moment seemed to almost shock him out of his fugue.
Orb Sceptre Throne
3
I had thought that cryogenic fugue was dreamless, but I was wrong.
The Hyperion Cantos
4
Contributor Keith Chapin concludes his look at the development of the fugue.
Radio NZ
5
Scratch A fugue-inmusic is a powerful morsel which costs a lot.
The Follies of Love
6
She began sleeping in a bubble of zero-g on the fugue deck.
The Hyperion Cantos
7
To you, your counterpoint, your fugue, the infallible, unquestionable sequence of one-two-three.
The Genius
8
Well, look at Verdi, who has studied fugue for two short years.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
9
Double counterpoint, imitation, fugue, or at least fughetta-thesehe returned to later.
Haydn
10
One of the most horrifying mind-sets is something we call 'specialist fugue state'.
Futures 1
11
A more modern poet in affectionate remembrance thus sings the fugue:-
Sabbath in Puritan New England
12
I understood at that second why interstellar voyagers always opted for cryogenic fugue.
The Hyperion Cantos
13
It seemed to have descended into a fugue, a dream state.
Zero Point
14
The doctors all say that Rachel could not survive cryogenic fugue.
The Hyperion Cantos
15
Above all do not hurry in fugue playing, a universal fault.
Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers
16
I slept in cryogenic fugue for three months and two weeks.
The Hyperion Cantos
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Translations for fugue
Portuguese
fuga
Fugue through the time
Fugue across language varieties
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