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fugue

[fyoog] / fjug /
NOUN
amnesia
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The song fuses Tamil folk music, Carnatic traditions, Western classical fugue and polka, with shifting tempos and finger snaps linking its contrasting sections.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

Yet investors didn’t show the same anxiety once trading started, sending the indices into a sort of fugue state.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

Not yogurt eaten in a fugue state between Slack pings.

From Salon Feb. 19, 2026

The first half of the Met Orchestra’s concert included a somewhat bumpy reading of a fugue from Bach’s “Musical Offering,” in an instrumentation by Anton Webern.

From New York Times Feb. 2, 2024

A fugue is an extremely clever and essentially more grown-up version of the same thing.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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