fugue

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 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 first half of the Met Orchestra’s concert included a somewhat bumpy reading of a fugue from Bach’s “Musical Offering,” in an instrumentation by Anton Webern.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

A seamless time jump midseason allowed Hader to create a surreal visual fugue composed of Barry's desires and the director's inspirations.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2023

But not as amazed as when the king received, a few weeks later, a written-out fugue, or ricercar, based on the supposedly impossible theme, this time in six parts.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall