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fugue

[fyoog] / fyug /
NOUN
amnesia
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Miller appeared to kick off the signing ceremony, entering to Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" and looking suitably vampiric.

From Salon • May 4, 2025

Tilson Thomas started with Benjamin Britten’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell, better known as “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2025

"Fugue Americaine" is a fictitious story about the late legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz and tells of the travels of brothers Franz and Oskar Wertheimer to Cuba to attend one of his concerts.

From Reuters • May 3, 2023

Jacobs’s textures were also beautifully varied in the “Prière,” the trumpet mellowed by the vast space without losing its focus; the “Prélude, Fugue et Variation” was a wistful nocturne, sensitively controlled and never overblown.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022

Fugue — A fugue usually has at least three independent parts, or voices.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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