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fugue

(fyo͞og)

1. Music A contrapuntal musical composition whose basic structure consists of a theme or themes stated successively in different voices.

2. Psychiatry A dissociative state, usually caused by trauma, marked by sudden travel or wandering away from home and an inability to remember one's past.

[Italian fuga (influenced by French fugue, from Italian fuga), from Latin, flight.]

fu′gal (fyo͞o′gəl) adj.

fu′gal·ly adv.

fugue v.

fugu′ist (fyo͞o′gĭst) n.

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fuguist

(ˈfjuːɡɪst)

(Music, other) a composer of fugues

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Perhaps the fuguist is in psychological flight from a memory that cannot be borne and will utterly fail to welcome the news that he is not the Regent of Pomerania traveling incognito in Provence, but maybe he's just having his spot of fun.