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  • noun Plural form of fugue.

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Examples

  • One of the reasons serialism might initially bug people more than, say, Bach fugues, is that there's no established common-tongue emotional reference for a serialist vocabulary, leaving a programmatically-minded listener more at sea.

    Girder and Panel Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • The whole afternoon they played so-called fugues, so that I had to go to bed and take medicine.

    Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880

  • It was about a Suicide Squad-esque group of misfits, special forces soldiers with severe mental problems — MPD, psychogenic fugues, schizophrenia, pathological lying, etc.

    tim’s sunday quickie: unpublish(ed/able) « 2009

  • That is why we should be pleased that when the peculiar glee of the moment dies down, when the choral fugues of we-told-you-so die out, when we no longer hear ourselves demanding that the UN formally retract its Report of the Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, or demanding that NGOs disband themselves in disgrace, Richard Goldstone will still be with us.

    Bradley Burston: The Next Israeli-Arab War, Goldstone Will Be There Bradley Burston 2011

  • It was about a Suicide Squad-esque group of misfits, special forces soldiers with severe mental problems — MPD, psychogenic fugues, schizophrenia, pathological lying, etc.

    2009 March « 2009

  • The fugues come back and again and again interweave.

    Wednesday Poetry: Kathe Kollwitz « Planning the Day 2009

  • He was torn, too, by his facility in both commercial and fine art, in both music three fugues he composed during the 1920s will be performed at Carnegie Hall next fall and visual art.

    A Divided Artist Comes Home Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011

  • Two of Bach's English Suites — F major and A minor — and a quartet of Scarlatti sonatas were interspersed with a host of the little preludes and fugues Bach wrote for his students and children.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • Now that organ is gone but the mother music still plays those rich red dirges and fugues inside that chamber so lusty with echoes.

    Ghost Camp Misti Rainwater-Lites 2011

  • Two of Bach's English Suites — F major and A minor — and a quartet of Scarlatti sonatas were interspersed with a host of the little preludes and fugues Bach wrote for his students and children.

    Authentication keys Matthew Guerrieri 2009

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  • 1. fugue - 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 ...

    2. fugue - a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days

    3. fugue - a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement

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    September 27, 2009