Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of a fugue; to be rendered in fugue style, but not according to strict rules. See
fugato , n. - noun In music, a piece composed in fugue style, but not according to strict rules.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music A
fugal passage in acomposition that is not a strict or completefugue .
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Examples
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His allegro fugato intro was deliberately enough paced to clarify textures, making the follow-on trombone entrance to impose the Prince's discipline on the crowd perfectly clear and commanding.
Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010
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His allegro fugato intro was deliberately enough paced to clarify textures, making the follow-on trombone entrance to impose the Prince's discipline on the crowd perfectly clear and commanding.
Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010
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His allegro fugato intro was deliberately enough paced to clarify textures, making the follow-on trombone entrance to impose the Prince's discipline on the crowd perfectly clear and commanding.
Rodney Punt: A Glowing Romeo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010
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The Master Chorale as a whole, and its division into several parts, showed itself to good effect as well: the Capulet men singing farewells after the ball, the combined forces intoning the funeral chant at Juliet's funeral, the warring clans in an agitated fugato at the tomb of the two lovers, and finally the combined oaths of reconciliation between the families.
Rodney Punt: A Glowing Romeo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010
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The Master Chorale as a whole, and its division into several parts, showed itself to good effect as well: the Capulet men singing farewells after the ball, the combined forces intoning the funeral chant at Juliet's funeral, the warring clans in an agitated fugato at the tomb of the two lovers, and finally the combined oaths of reconciliation between the families.
Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010
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The Master Chorale as a whole, and its division into several parts, showed itself to good effect as well: the Capulet men singing farewells after the ball, the combined forces intoning the funeral chant at Juliet's funeral, the warring clans in an agitated fugato at the tomb of the two lovers, and finally the combined oaths of reconciliation between the families.
Rodney Punt: A Glowing Roméo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010
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The Master Chorale as a whole, and its division into several parts, showed itself to good effect as well: the Capulet men singing farewells after the ball, the combined forces intoning the funeral chant at Juliet's funeral, the warring clans in an agitated fugato at the tomb of the two lovers, and finally the combined oaths of reconciliation between the families.
Rodney Punt: A Glowing Romeo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010
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His allegro fugato intro was deliberately enough paced to clarify textures, making the follow-on trombone entrance to impose the Prince's discipline on the crowd perfectly clear and commanding.
Rodney Punt: A Glowing Romeo et Juliette -- Charles Dutoit with the LA Philharmonic in Berlioz Rodney Punt 2010
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These compositions are what we would call part songs and they are usually constructed in simple four-part harmony, without fugato passages or imitations.
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The newly published Fugue -- or fugato -- in A minor, in two voices, is from a manuscript in the possession of Natalie Janotha, who probably got it from the late Princess Czartoryska, a pupil of the composer.
Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890
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