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What does fugal mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fugal? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (music) relating to a fugue
  2. Relating to flight (fleeing)
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If she conceives of it as a fugue, she uses techniques of counterpoint and fugal structure to make the piece.
There follows a chapter on the three fugal finales from op.20, its start a high point of felicitous writing.
At the premiere Handel gave an organ extemporisation on the fugal subject taken up by the choir.
And Handel was no less rigorous and independent in his exploitation of fugal material by inferior composers.
The cadenza's fugal opening was arresting, followed by Beethovenian drama and power.
In the second movement, for example, it appears pretty much as itself, while in the trio of the scherzo third, Antheil transforms it into a fugal subject.

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