fugues in English
noun
1
a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
Even though he had never even written a six-part fugue for keyboard, Bach immediately demurred.
2
a state or period of loss of awareness of one's identity, often coupled with flight from one's usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy.
Discussions of psychogenic fugue in standard psychiatric references offer suggestions of sodium amobarbital interviews or hypnosis.
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1. 1806) - contains fugues nos.
2. Forty Bach Chorales It is the Chorales, not his trademark fugues, that lie at the heart of Bach’stechnique
3. The Well-Tempered Clavier, BWV 846-893, collection of 48 preludes and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach, published in two books (1722 and 1742)