Look up: Fugue

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   fugue
   [n] - dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who who they are and leaves home to creates a new life 2. [n] - a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days 3. [n] - a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
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   Fugue
   The term `fugue` has long been applied to transient amnesic states in which there is loss of access to either the semantic or episodic aspects of the self, and which commonly results in the sufferer wandering aimlessly away from their normal workplace or home. This clinical pattern of signs was elevated by the DSM-IV into `dissociative fugue`, one of the four specific dissociative disorders, describing it as follows .....
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   Fugue
   Polyphonic form popular in the Baroque era in which one or more themes are developed by imitative counterpoint.
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   Fugue
   (language, music) A music language implemented in Xlisp. ['Fugue: A Functional Language for Sound Synthesis', R.B. Dannenberg et al, Computer 24(7):36-41 (Jul 1991)]. (1994-12-01)
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   fugue
   the element that characterizes fugue most clearly is flight. Category: Medicine
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   Fugue
   Fugue noun [ French, from Italian fuga , from Latin fuga a fleeing, flight, akin to fugere to fiee. See Fugitive .] (Mus.) A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fif ...
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   fugue
   A condition in which an individual suddenly abandons a present activity or lifestyle and starts a new and different one for a period of time, often in a different city; afterward, the individual alleges amnesia for events occurring during the fugue period, although earlier events are remembered and habits and skills are usually unaffected. ... Origi ...
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   fugue
   noun a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
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   fugue
   noun dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
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    Fugue
    In music, a `fugue` is a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of parts, normally referred to as `voices`, irrespective of whether the work is vocal or instrumental. `fugue` The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Ed. Michael Kennedy. Oxford University Press, 1996. In the Middle Ages, the term was widely used to denote any works in canonic style; by the Renaissance, it had come to denote specifically imi...
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    fugue
    (fūg) a pathological state of altered consciousness in which an individual may act and wander around as though conscious but have behavior not directed by the complete normal personality and not remembered after the fugue ends. dissociative fugue , psychogenic fugue ...
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    Fugue
    • (n.) A polyphonic composition, developed from a given theme or themes, according to strict contrapuntal rules. The theme is first given out by one voice or part, and then, while that pursues its way, it is repeated by another at the interval of a fifth or fourth, and so on, until all the parts have answered one by one, continuing their sever...
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    fugue
    in music, a compositional procedure characterized by the systematic imitation of a principal theme (called the subject) in simultaneously sounding ... [7 related articles]
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    fugue
    fugue (fyOOg) [Ital.,=flight], in music, a form of composition in which the basic principle is imitative counterpoint of several voices. Its main elements are: (1) a theme, or subject, stated first in one voice alone and then successively in all voices; (2) the continuation of a voice after the subj...
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