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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 a composition that is not a strict or complete fugue.

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