Fugue is an English word with synonyms like classical. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
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.
Synonyms of Fugue
Using Fugue
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: psychogenic fugue, dissociative disorder, psychological state, mental state.
- In the example corpus, fugue often appears in combinations such as: fugue state, the fugue, dissociative fugue.
Context around Fugue
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fugue
- In this selection, "fugue" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dissociative, formerly, psychogenic, formerly, see and cannot stand out and add context to how "fugue" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a confusing fugue state when and a dissociative fugue. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fugue" sits close to words such as abating, abstaining and accumulator, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fugue
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
After recovery from fugue, previous memories usually return intact. (9 words)
The Doctor claims she has entered a fugue state brought about by trauma. (13 words)
Fugue in A-flat major, BWV 862, from Book One of The Well-Tempered Clavier. (15 words)
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. (39 words)
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). (38 words)
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. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
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.
Common combinations with fugue
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- fugue state 10×
- the fugue 9×
- dissociative fugue 7×
- fugue in 5×
- fugue no 4×
- fugue is 3×
- and fugue 3×
- in fugue 3×
- organ fugue 2×
- bach's fugue 2×