FUGUE


Meaning of FUGUE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈfyüg ]

noun

Etymology: probably from Italian fuga flight, fugue, from Latin, flight, from fugere

Date: 1597

1.

a. : a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts

b. : something that resembles a fugue especially in interweaving repetitive elements

2. : a disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the acts performed

• fugue verb

• fugu·ist ˈfyü-gist noun

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.