Fugue has been described as a texture rather than a form. It is, in essence, a contrapuntal composition. The normal fugue opens with a subject or theme in one voice or part. A second voice answers, with the same subject transposed and sometimes slightly altered, usually at the interval of a fifth; the first voice continues at the same time, with an [..]

type of musical composition, 1590s, fuge, from Italian fuga, literally "flight," also "ardor," from Latin fuga "a running away, act of fleeing," from fugere "to flee [..]

A composition written for three to six voices. Beginning with the exposition, each voice enters at different times, creating counterpoint with one another.

a brief period where a person is in a semi-conscious state in routine activity and has no memory of the actions taken. It is associated with epilepsy and alcohol intoxication.

A form of composition popular in, but not restricted to, the Baroque era, in which a theme or subject is introduced by one voice, and is imitated by other voices in succession. Usually only the first [..]

Fugue (also known as Dissociative Fugue) is a really interesting type of disorder in which a person suffers a bout of amnesia and then flees their home and identity. Often the person will travel far a [..]

(n) 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 [..]

A tool for helping you write better .NET code. It is a "defect detection" tool. Fugue will do things such as check for fields that shouldn't be null, check for use of objects after they [..]

a contrapuntal form based on imitation of a subject (theme) written for two or more voices. It is based on a short theme or subject, stated at the beginning by one voice, and brought in by each of the [..]

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.

The most fully developed work in imitative counterpoint.

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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 dom [..]

Contrapuntal form in which a subject theme ('part' or 'voice') is introduced and then extended and developed through some number of successive imitations.

 (Fr), fuga (Latin and Italian) – literally “flight”; hance a complex and highly regimented contrapuntal form in music. A short theme (the subject) is introduced in one voice (or part) alone, then in [..]

A polyphonic composition that makes systematic use of imitation, usually based on a single subject, and that opens with a series of exposed entries on that subject.

An overlapping form in which a music theme is introduced and then extended and developed by other parts after a given interval; like a canon, but uses a more complex mix of counter-melodies.

A fugue is piece of music entirely based on one short tune.

Compositional technique in which two or more voices repeatedly imitate a short melody called the subject or theme

A contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and recurs frequently in the course [..]

Contrapuntal composition or section based on the development of a short theme or subject in imitation.

(music) 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, painti [..]

an altered state of consciousness in which what is happening now is unrelated to, or dissociated from what had happened then, in the preceding phase of existence; as for example in the alternating man [..]