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Fugue meaning
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. | A fugue state.
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For infobox Dissociative fugue, formerly fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a DSM-5 dissociative disorder.
For the purposes of this article then, a fugue state would occur while one is acting out a Dissociative Fugue.
Furthermore, in some fugues the entry of one of the voices may be reserved until later, for example in the pedals of an organ fugue (see J. S. Bach's Fugue in C major for Organ, BWV 547).
Sometimes dissociative fugue cannot be diagnosed until people abruptly return to their pre-fugue identity and are distressed to find themselves in unfamiliar circumstances.
Therefore, the terminology fugue state may carry a slight linguistic distinction from Dissociative Fugue, the former implying a greater degree of motion.
Sometimes they even tell their stories through abstract images, such as the beginning segment, "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor".
Fugue in A-flat major, BWV 862, from Book One of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Gargiulo’s lawyers have argued their client suffered from a mental disorder that left him in a confusing “fugue state” when he attacked Murphy, the Los Angeles Times reported.
In that fugue state of panic, I spied one forgotten Chick-fil-A sandwich on my desk.
The Doctor claims she has entered a fugue state brought about by trauma.
After recovery from fugue, previous memories usually return intact.
Because of this, there is not normally any treatment necessary for people who have been in fugue states.
Beethoven, Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131, opening fugal exposition Romantic era By the beginning of the Romantic era, fugue writing had become specifically attached to the norms and styles of the Baroque.
Citation on 10. Benjamin Britten used a fugue in the final part of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra ( 1946 ).
Classical era During the Classical era, the fugue was no longer a central or even fully natural mode of musical composition.
Dissociative fugue affects many characters in David Lynch films with the most explicit example being the protagonist of Lost Highway (1997).
Dissociative fugue usually involves unplanned travel or wandering, and is sometimes accompanied by the establishment of a new identity.
During the course of a permutation fugue, it is quite uncommon, actually, for every single possible voice-combination (or "permutation") of the themes to be heard.
Episode further Further entries of the subject follow this initial exposition, either immediately (as for example in Fugue No. 1 in C major, BWV 846 of the Well-Tempered Clavier ), or separated by episodes.
Example and analysis The excerpt below, bars 7–12 of J. S. Bach's Fugue no. 2 in C minor, BWV 847, from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 illustrates the application of most of the characteristics described above.