fugues

Interwoven musical pieces

A fugue is a musical composition built on a theme that enters in one voice, then is taken up by other voices in overlapping imitation—a complex weaving of the same melody against itself.

In psychiatry, a fugue state is a period of amnesia during which a person may travel or assume a new identity, later remembering nothing: He wandered for days in a dissociative fugue.

musical

counterpoint

Simultaneous independent melodies

  • BachGerman composer surname
  • polyphonySimultaneous independent melodic lines
  • subjectMatter under discussion

exposition · voices · baroque · composition · episode · answer · development · toccata · harpsichord · canon

dissociative

amnesia

Pathological loss of recall

identity · dissociation · memory · psychiatric · consciousness · episode · disorder · psychogenic · confusion · automatic

literary

stream-of-consciousness

Narrative of unfiltered thought

Virginia Woolf · narrative · consciousness · interior · Joyce · polyphonic · layered · interwoven · experimental · temporal

Categories
Opposites
musical texture and structure

fuguesmonody

Solo vocal lamentation

block chords · chorales · anthems · folk songs · hymns

compositional complexity and rigor

fuguesimprovisations

Spontaneous unrehearsed performances

rhapsodies · fantasias · jam sessions · nursery rhymes · jingles

mental state

fugueslucidity

Clearness of mind

mindfulness · groundedness · self-awareness · alertness · wakefulness

Phrases
Family

fugue, fugu

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