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fugue

[fyoog] / fjug /
NOUN
amnesia
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The song fuses Tamil folk music, Carnatic traditions, Western classical fugue and polka, with shifting tempos and finger snaps linking its contrasting sections.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

That time spent getting the headboard, for example, was frankly spent in a sort of grim fugue state, wordlessly drifting from place to place in exhausted resignation.

From Salon Mar. 29, 2025

More than 100 renderings by artists as grand as David Hockney delivered fugue variants in form and material.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2025

The chorus, in the old musical forms of canon and fugue, demands light.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 2023

A fugue is an extremely clever and essentially more grown-up version of the same thing.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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