fugue
Voices chasing themes
A fugue is a musical composition built on a theme that enters successively in different voices, each imitating the others in a complex interwoven pattern.
Bach's fugues remain the form's highest achievements.
In psychiatry, a fugue state is a period of amnesia during which a person may travel or assume a new identity, then return to normal awareness with no memory of the episode: He wandered the city in a fugue for three days.
Simultaneous independent melodies
- polyphonySimultaneous independent melodic lines
- BachGerman composer surname
- canonAccepted authoritative works
- voicesSounds producing speech
subject · answer · exposition · episode · tonal · real · development · imitation
Pathological loss of recall
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- identityWho someone is
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- memory lossFailure to recall
blackout · disorientation · confusion · trauma · psychogenic · episode · unconscious · escape
Hazy and fantastical
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- driftGradual movement, no direction
- hazeMurky atmospheric suspension
altered state · automatism · spell · daze · stupor · oblivion · detachment · absorption
Arrangement of interconnected parts
- formShape or document
- voicesSounds producing speech
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- developmentProgress toward maturity
recapitulation · episode · coda · answer · subject · entry · sequence · inversion
counterpoint
Simultaneous independent melodies
- polyphonySimultaneous independent melodic lines
- BachGerman composer surname
- canonAccepted authoritative works
voices · subject · answer · exposition · episode · tonal · real · development · imitation · theme
amnesia
Pathological loss of recall
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- identityWho someone is
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
memory loss · blackout · disorientation · confusion · trauma · psychogenic · episode · unconscious · escape · automatic
dreamlike
Hazy and fantastical
- tranceSemiconscious, unresponsive condition
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
- driftGradual movement, no direction
haze · altered state · automatism · spell · daze · stupor · oblivion · detachment · absorption · lost
structure
Arrangement of interconnected parts
- formShape or document
- voicesSounds producing speech
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
development · recapitulation · episode · coda · answer · subject · entry · sequence · inversion · augmentation
- Baroque MusicBach, Vivaldi, Handel, harpsichord, Vivaldi Four Seasons
- piano piecesnocturne, etude, prelude, ballade, impromptu
- art formspainting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music
- musicmusic, song, songs, singing, singer
- creationsnovel, artwork, poem, song, film
- classical musicBach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms
fuguemonophony
Unaccompanied single melody
homophony · unison · single voice · plainchant · block chords
fuguethrough-composed
Entirely new throughout
rhapsody · fantasia · improvisation · jam session · cadenza
fuguelucidity
Clearness of mind
presence · mental clarity · self-awareness · conscious awareness · groundedness
- fugitive slaveEscaped person from bondage
- The FugitivePerson fleeing the law
- fugue stateTemporary identity loss disorder
- fugitive slave lawsMandated return of escapees
- fugitive from justiceOne evading lawful capture
- Fugitive Slave ActLaw mandating escapee return