Fugue

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fugue \Fugue\, n. [F., fr. It. fuga, fr. L. fuga a fleeing,
     flight, akin to fugere to fiee. See {Fugitive}.] (Mus.)
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           All parts of the scheme are eternally chasing each
           other, like the parts of a fugue.        --Jer. Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fugue
       n 1: dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who 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 [syn: {psychogenic fugue}]
       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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "fugue":
     agnosia, amnesia, blackout, canon, catalepsy, cataplexy,
     catatonic stupor, catch, daydreaming, daze, dream state, fugato,
     fugue state, hypnotic trance, loss of memory, reverie, rondeau,
     rondino, rondo, rondoletto, round, roundelay, sleepwalking,
     somnambulism, stupor, trance, troll, word deafness
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Fugue
       
           A music language implemented in {Xlisp}.
       
          ["Fugue: A Functional Language for Sound Synthesis",
          R.B. Dannenberg et al, Computer 24(7):36-41 (Jul 1991)].
       
          (1994-12-01)