Fugue is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FUGUE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to compose a type of musical composition
• be in a dreamlike, altered state of consciousness
NOUN:
• 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.
• A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their several melodies and interweaving them in one complex progressive whole, in which the theme is often lost and reappears.
• 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
• 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
• type of musical composition
• a loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to compose a fugue (a type of musical composition)

Words related to FUGUE

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Words that contain FUGUE

fugued11 fugues10 fuguelike17

How to use FUGUE in a sentence

• He was afraid to move his Feet for fear some one would notice that he was still in the Parlor and ask him how he liked Fugue No.
• The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
• The glorious final fugue is an epitome of the work.
• And from the fugue to concerted music of two, three, four, and more parts, the transition was easy.
• In the fugue form itself, he made many innovations consisting mainly of the casting aside of formalism.
• John remembered a certain fugue by Bach, and motioning to the page to blow, he seated himself at the key-board.
• But presently played-out fugue subjects are heard, and we know it is Beckmesser or no one.
• It is customary to describe the music as a fugue, and, if that is so, no more unfugue-like fugue was ever penned.
• Its most Gothic form, the North German fugue, which is the instrumental descendant of the Netherlands church music, is the most closely organized of musical types.
• Immediately the drums beat a salute, both bands struck up a martial refrain, caught and repeated like a fugue by every instrument from the thinnest flutes to the largest drum.
• Its shadows are all about as in a fugue of fears, flitting still to the tune of the dance and anon yielding before the gaiety.
• The climax of fugue returns to the heroic main plaint below, with sighing answers above, all the voices of wood and brass enforcing the strings.
• In solemn fugue the original motto is reared from its timid phrase to masterful utterance, with splendid stride.
• Almost the only continuous thread is of the meditative fugue.
• The sharp clash of fugue is rung again and again, as if the cup must be drained to the drop.
• A new stretch of fugue appears with new counter-theme, that begins in long-blown notes of horns.
• Bach excelled in it, sometimes developing themes in the form of a fugue at a public performance.
• The fugue, in one form or another, seems to be almost indispensable in musical composition, but it is always characterized by learning instead of inspiration.
• The only work begun and completed by the master while at Gneixendorf was the new finale, which replaced the long fugue of the B flat Quartet.
• In my room at the hotel I was mentally reviewing the program, when in a Mendelssohn Fugue, I found I had forgotten a small portion.
• I went down to the little parlor and tried the fugue on the piano, but could not remember the portion in question.
• When the time came to play the fugue at the recital, it all went smoothly till I was well over the weak spot, which, it seems, I really played as Mendelssohn wrote it.
• I remember learning the Bach A minor Prelude and Fugue in this way.
• Above all do not hurry in fugue playing, a universal fault.
• I think, however, it would be entirely possible to stain the unpainted wood to produce any desired symphony, fugue or discord.

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