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

  • As wide-awake as though lying on a bed of nails, Jack's mind fugued toward his work.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • 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

  • 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

    Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method

  • 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

  • Sehr fugirt (greatly fugued.) [C] Nottebohm's Zweite Beethoveniana.

    Beethoven A Character Study Fischer, George A 1905

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • {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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