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fugue

/fyoog/US // fyug //UK // (fjuːɡ) //

赋格,赋格曲,赋格法,赋格舞

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Music. a polyphonic composition based upon one, two, or more themes, which are enunciated by several voices or parts in turn, subjected to contrapuntal treatment, and gradually built up into a complex form having somewhat distinct divisions or stages of development and a marked climax at the end.
    • : Psychiatry. a period during which a person experiences loss of memory, often begins a new life, and, upon recovery, remembers nothing of the amnesic phase.

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Examples

  • Next, because the continuation of a phrase also needs to follow a certain musical form, whether it’s a scherzo, trio or fugue, the AI needed to learn Beethoven’s process for developing these forms.

  • Years earlier, Elena fell into a possible fugue state and has no memory of six months of her life.

  • By day, she muddles through in a depressive fugue, for reasons the movie will make clear later.

  • Research has shown that a fugue state may be induced by intensely emotional or stressful events.

  • Green, however, said: “They can no more be separated than the voices of a fugue.”

  • The guy showed up with a giant bottle of OxyContin that he had stolen from his mother and I slipped right back into a fugue state.

  • The sonnet is a sort of poetical fugue in which the theme ought to pass and repass until its final resolution in a given form.

  • I went down to the little parlor and tried the fugue on the piano, but could not remember the portion in question.

  • The music of the four-part fugue entered into him more deeply, and he began to hum its little phrases.

  • But like the theme in a fugue this loud tranquil recurrent need to Express me transcends them all.

  • It is customary to describe the music as a fugue, and, if that is so, no more unfugue-like fugue was ever penned.