Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, constructed wholly or in part in the style of a fugue.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fugue .
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Examples
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As wide-awake as though lying on a bed of nails, Jack's mind fugued toward his work.
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While those that are fond of fugued tunes have not been neglected, I have endeavoured to make this book a complete Musical Companion for the aged as well as the youth.
The Southern Harmony 1809-1875 1966
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Two prairie-wolves, in a fugued duet, can emit more disquieting noise, with a less proportion of harmony, than any aggregation of several times their equal in numbers, not excepting
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And when they had mounted the steps of the mighty entrance, and the sound of unrecognized music reached him -- a very myth of music, elusive, vagrant, fugued -- and the palace doors swung open to receive them, he could have shouted aloud on the brilliant threshold:
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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Sehr fugirt (greatly fugued.) [C] Nottebohm's Zweite Beethoveniana.
Beethoven A Character Study Fischer, George A 1905
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The morning I speak of they were singing some fugued composition by I know not whom.
Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895
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Half-a-dozen squeaking fiddles fugued and flourished away in the galleries, and as many paralytic monks gabbled before the altars, while a whole posse of devotees, in long white hoods and flannels, were sweltering on either side.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891
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This was first sung by the class with antiphonal responses, then with a fugued finale, and Mr. Slehbell was considerably impressed.
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890
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Mind you, it is not that big fugued finale -- surely one of the most astounding operatic codas in existence -- that carries me away.
Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques James Huneker 1890
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{1} [Musical excerpt] and the fugued allegro, constructed with a skill that will never cease to be a wonder to the knowing, built up on the following subject: --
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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