From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfuguefugue /fjuːɡ/ noun [countable, uncountable] APMa piece of music with a tune that is repeated regularly in different keys by different voices or instruments
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fugue• All three suites contain a fugue, while there is a chaconne in the Second and a passacaglia to end the Third.• But how dull a poorly constructed fugue can be.• But you can not go from the reed-pipe to the art of fugue in one day.• Now he was out of his Richie Quick fugue, he seemed to have a perspective on the City.• He is a grammarian, a swordsman, a musician with a predilection for the fugue.• In the fugue, at once elated and exhausting, Mullova was staggering technically.Origin fugue (1500-1600) Italian fuga “flight, fugue”, from Latin fugere; → FUGITIVE2 