HOW TO PRONOUNCE
fugue
/fjuɡ/
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One syllable, ending with a hard g.
Keep f followed by the y sound in yes and an oo vowel. Fugue has one syllable; the final ue does not add another.
1 syllable
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“The organist played a fugue.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does fugue mean?
noun
- 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.
- A fugue state.
More meanings (2)
verb
- To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.
- To spend time in a dissociative fugue state.
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IPA pronunciation
/fjuɡ/
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And what was played was a fugue—though Pétya had not the least conception of what a fugue is.
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
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The spot at which their instrumentation rose loudest was a place called Ten Hatches, whence during high springs there proceeded a very fugue of sounds.
In three minutes she was deep in a very difficult, very classical fugue in A, and over her face came a queer remote impersonal expression of complete absorption and anxious satisfaction.
The delight the healthy adult mind takes in working out a neat problem in geometry, the pleasure a musician finds in following the involutions of a fugue, are of the same type of satisfaction as the liking of children for cumulative stories.