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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

赋格

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fùgé

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fugue/fjuːɡ/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"巴赫的赋格曲在音乐史上非常著名。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a principal subject that is introduced at the beginning in imitation and recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition.

    "The organist flawlessly executed Bach's intricate fugue in G minor."
  2. 2

    A state or period of abnormal behavior during which a person forgets their identity and life history, often involving sudden travel away from home.

    "Following the traumatic event, the patient experienced a dissociative fugue lasting several weeks."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the 16th-century Italian word 'fuga' (meaning flight or running), which stems from the Latin 'fuga' (flight). Originally related to 'fugere' (to flee), the musical term evolved in the late Renaissance and Baroque periods to describe a polyphonic composition where musical voices chase one another.

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