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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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The fugal finale was full of clarity of motivic detail, every part in place, building thrilling momentum.
The cadenza's fugal opening was arresting, followed by Beethovenian drama and power.
There follows a chapter on the three fugal finales from op.20, its start a high point of felicitous writing.
The Bristol instrument and indeed Adrian Partington are at their most convincing when there is a constant flow of music, as in the fugal development to the sonata's finale.
At the premiere Handel gave an organ extemporisation on the fugal subject taken up by the choir.
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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