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fugue
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As a noun, fugue means 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. As a verb, it means improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
Meanings of fugue
7 meaningsnoun
musicA 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.
A fugue state.
Dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state
Similar: psychogenic fugueA dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days
A musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement
verb
To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).