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Fugue

noun

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. Synonym: psychogenic fugue.

A dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days.

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

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"Fugue" Quotes from Famous Books

... have said, but the texture of the world is a warp and woof of contradiction in terms; of continuity in discontinuity, and discontinuity in continuity; of unity in diversity, and of diversity in unity. As in the development of a fugue, where, when the subject and counter subject have been enounced, there must henceforth be nothing new, and yet all must be new, so throughout organic life— which is as a fugue developed to great length from a very simple subject—everything is linked on to and grows out of that which comes ...

— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler

... on the Great the Double Touch usually brings on the Tuba or Trumpet. It is thus possible to play a hymn tune in four parts on the Swell and bring out the melody on the Choir Clarinet; to play on the Choir and bring out the melody on the Swell Vox Humana or Cornopean; or to play a fugue with the full power of the Great organ (except the Trumpet) and bring out the subject of the fugue every time it enters, whether in the soprano voice, the alto, tenor, ...

— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller

... the great fugue in A minor expressly for your entertainment: you used to work at Liszt's transcription of it. The organ is only occasionally my consoler. For the most part I am driven to it by habit and a certain itching in my fingers. Marian is ...

— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw

... to his race he would not use, he had a mighty power of purr to express his measureless content with congenial society. There was in him a musical organ with stops of varied power and expression, upon which I have no doubt he could have performed Scarlatti's celebrated cat's-fugue. ...

— Lords of the Housetops - Thirteen Cat Tales • Various

... the lights in the kaleidoscopic windows, directed him towards that edifice. He rushed to the door: 'twas barred! He knocked: the beadles were deaf. He applied his inestimable relic to the lock, and—whiz! crash! clang! bang! whang!—the gate flew open! the organ went off in a fugue—the lights quivered over the tapers, and then went off towards the ceiling—the ghosts assembled rushed away with a skurry and a scream—the bride howled, and vanished—the fat bishop waddled back under his brass plate—the dean flounced down into his family vault—and the canon Schidnischmidt, ...

— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

Words linked to "Fugue" : classical, mental condition, classical music, mental state, dissociative disorder, fugal, psychological condition, serious music, psychological state