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fugue
noun as in flight
Strongest match
Weak matches
noun as in forgetfulness
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Try to avoid shivering as you listen to Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” — a stormy organ piece that’s become standard for horror films.
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.
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On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fugue, such as: blackout, and stupor.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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