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fugue

[fyoog] / fyug /
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

“He’s the Rock of Ages of music,” says Carpenter, who particularly loves the fugue nicknamed “St. Anne” and the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

It allowed Elordi to renounce any hang-ups, surrendering to a fugue state of mind.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

And the podcast's style is woven together in what sounds somewhat like the fugue state one lands in at a cocktail party deep into the night, where there is and is not an audience.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2023

Or is there a kind of cosmic fugue, with themes and counterpoints, dissonances and harmonies, a billion different voices playing the life music of the Galaxy?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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