fuguing

If there were pathos and power and solemn splendor in the rhythmic movement of the churchly chants, there was a grand wild freedom, an energy of motion, in the old "fuguing" tunes of that day that well expressed the heart of a people courageous in combat and unshaken in endurance.

Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives 1878

Sacred Harp is an old American tradition of choral music, a particular style of polyphonic and fuguing arrangements of sacred songs.

I Predict A Choir juan.les.pins 2006

As Kirk stared at the big matter-antimatter chamber while the Paladin's chief engineer explained some new hardware toy, he found himself fuguing out.

Recovery Dillard, J. M. 1995

Sundays in the old staring, rattle-windowed meeting-house, and looked at the uncouth old pulpit, and heard the choir faw-sol-la-ing or singing fuguing tunes; but of all this she said nothing.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

The fuguing chants of the Papal choir sound into the dome and down the aisles, while the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

All this polyphonic allusiveness, this intricate fuguing of ideas, is not to be confused, remember, with the hollow showiness of the academic soothsayer.

A Book of Prefaces 1918

All public worshippers in the meetings one hundred years ago did not, however, regard fuguing as "something sweet everywhere," nor did they agree with Billings and Byles as to its angelic and ecstatic properties.

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

It is impossible while speaking of fuguing to pass over an extraordinary element of the choir called "singing counter."

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

An old inhabitant of Roxbury remembered that when fuguing tunes were introduced into his church "they produced a literally fuguing effect on the older people, who went out of the church as soon as the first verse was sung."

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

The repetition of a word or syllable in fuguing often lead to some ridiculous variations in the meanings of the lines.

Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881