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By day, she muddles through in a depressive fugue, for reasons the movie will make clear later.
PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN STARTS WITH A CATHARTIC BLAST. THEN IT GETS BOGGED DOWN WITH CYNICISMSTEPHANIE ZACHAREKJANUARY 15, 2021TIME
The sonnet is a sort of poetical fugue in which the theme ought to pass and repass until its final resolution in a given form.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, HIS LIFETHOPHILE GAUTIER
I went down to the little parlor and tried the fugue on the piano, but could not remember the portion in question.
PIANO MASTERYHARRIETTE BROWER
The music of the four-part fugue entered into him more deeply, and he began to hum its little phrases.
THE LONGEST JOURNEYE. M. FORSTER
But like the theme in a fugue this loud tranquil recurrent need to Express me transcends them all.
I, MARY MACLANEMARY MACLANE
It is customary to describe the music as a fugue, and, if that is so, no more unfugue-like fugue was ever penned.
RICHARD WAGNERJOHN F. RUNCIMAN
But presently played-out fugue subjects are heard, and we know it is Beckmesser or no one.
RICHARD WAGNERJOHN F. RUNCIMAN
The nearer she (or he) approaches the object of her (or his) search the louder grows the music (the fugue) and vice versa.
THE SIEGE OF KIMBERLEYT. PHELAN
He praised my playing, particularly in the Bach fugue, and said: You play that well, which is much for him.
THE LIFE OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, VOLUME II (OF 3)ALEXANDER WHEELOCK THAYER
Ries added to the score a short passage of modulation, which led from the fugue into the plain, simple tune.
THE LIFE OF LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, VOLUME II (OF 3)ALEXANDER WHEELOCK THAYER
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