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fugues, plural;
  1. A contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts

  2. A state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy

  1. 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
  2. a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
  3. a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
  4. In music, a fugue is a contrapuntal composition in two or more voices, built on a subject (theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and recurs frequently in the course of the composition.
  5. The Morlocks are a group of several fictional comic book mutants associated with the X-Men in the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Paul Smith, they were named after the subterranean race of the same name in H. G. Wells' novel The Time Machine. ...
  6. Fugue is a 2010 psychological thriller directed by and written by . The film stars as a young woman who moves into a new house with her boyfriend , and comes to believe her new home is haunted. ...
  7. Fugue is a cryptographic hash function submitted by IBM to the NIST hash function competition. It was designed by Shai Halevi, William E. Hall, and Charanjit S. Jutla. Fugue takes an arbitrary-length message and compresses it down to a fixed bit-length (either 224, 256, 384 or 512 bits). ...
  8. Fugue is a prominent American literary magazine, based at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. The journal was founded in 1990 under the editorship of J.C. Hendee. It publishes fiction, essays and poetry twice each year.
  9. A fugue state, formally Dissociative Fugue (previously called Psychogenic Fugue) (DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders 300. ...
  10. A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody; Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality
  11. (36 Fugues) (2006). Jaroslav Tůma (fortepiano Anton Walter, 1790). 2 CDs, ARTA F101462, see [5]
  12. A Baroque piece with a recurring melody against various independent voices, Bach is considered history's greatest master of this form.
  13. Contrapuntal form in which a subject theme ('part' or 'voice') is introduced and then extended and developed through some number of successive imitations.
  14. A complex form of contrapuntal composition, associated most strongly with the Baroque period and particularly with Bach, in which three or more voices enter one after another, not only imitating the main subject (as in a canon) but developing it in new directions and sometimes introducing new ...
  15. A composition (or part of a composition) in which a single, easily recognized theme, called the “fugue subject,” is announced by one voice then echoed by others, entering one at a time. ...
  16. A composition written systematically in imitative polyphony, usually with a single main theme.
  17. A contrapuntal composition following a strict tonal plan. It is a texture rather than a form. It opens with a theme in one part in the tonic, which is then repeated by each part alternating in the dominant and the tonic. It may have as few as two voices and rarely more than four. ...
  18. A composition, often for a keyboard instrument, in which several musical lines (or "voices" - usually three or four) enter in succession in different ranges with the same theme, which is then extensively developed in further entries of the theme. ...
  19. a form in which a theme is first stated on its own, then imitated by others, with each one joining in a short while after the last.
  20. Polyphonic form popular in the Baroque era in which one or more themes are developed by imitative counterpoint.
  21. This is a composition in which imitative counterpointing involving one or more theme is the most important or most characteristic device of formal extension.
  22. "Flight." A contrapuntal piece, in which two or more parts are built or "layered" on a recurring subject that is introduced alone, and followed by an answer, which is the subject (or theme) at a different pitch, usually the fifth.
  23. "Then I can hum a fugue of which I’ve heard the music’s dim afore - "  A musical composition based on a short theme that is harmonised in counterpoint and then is reintroduced repeatedly. ...
  24. a type of imitative polyphony in which several performers each echo the opening melody, but also go on to perform individual material
  25. a polyphonic composition consisting of a series of successive melody imitations