Definitions
a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
Word origin
Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugiō (“to flee”); compare Ancient Greek φυγή (phugḗ). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts. Doublet of fuga.
Used in a sentence
“Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.”
“And most of them women, and these only stayed in a fugue state for a relatively short time, like a couple of hours or a couple of days. As far as we know Malenov fugued for close to twenty years.”
“Fugue states can have phases—it's possible she fugued from the start, and only woke to what was happening on that bus.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Layered music”5 letters
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