fugue

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

Noun

1. A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
2. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
3. A fugue state.

Verb

1. To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
2. (intransitive) To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.

Έννοιες

φυγή

φούγκα

μελωδία με επωδόν

περιπλάνηση λόγω αμνησίας

foúnga

Συνώνυμα

psychogenic fugue

escape

hurry

prelude

toccata

Μεταφράσεις

Fuge

fugue

fuga

fuga

✈️

fuga

evasione

fuga

Fuga

فقدان الذاكرة

füg

فُوغَا

evasió

fuga

✈️

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)

/ˈfjuːɡ/

Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

Συγγενές με Αρχαία Ελληνικά: φυγή

In summary

Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugiō (“to flee”); compare Ancient Greek φυγή (phugḗ). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts. Doublet of fuga.