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fugue

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Music
fugue /fjuːɡ/ noun [countable, uncountable]  APMa piece of music with a tune that is repeated regularly in different keys by different voices or instruments 赋格曲
Examples from the Corpus
fugueAll 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
fugue nounChinese
tune of Corpus with a a music is that piece


fugue
fugue /fjuːɡ/ noun [uncountable and countable]
 Date: 1500-1600
 Language: Italian
 Origin: fuga 'flight, fugue', from Latin fugere; fugitive2
a piece of music with a tune that is repeated regularly in different keys by different voices or instruments


fugueBrE /fjuːɡ/ 🔊NAmE /fjuːɡ/ 🔊 noun (music 音乐) a piece of music in which one or more tunes are introduced and then repeated in a complicated pattern 赋格曲