fugue /ˈfjuːɡ/noun 3verb 2forms 3 noun3 •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. •Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices. — 1981 •A fugue state. verb2 •To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.And most of them women, and these only stayed in a fugue state for a relatively short time, like a couple of hours or a couple of days. As far as we know Malenov fugued for close to twenty years. — 2014 •To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc. formsfugued · fuguing · fugues
