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What is the noun for fugue?

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fugue
  1. (music) 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.
  2. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
  3. A fugue state, or the condition of being in one.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “One of the more interesting types of amnesia is what psychiatrists call the fugue state.”
      “The following evening the King added a request for a six-part fugue by Bach on his theme.”
      “If she conceives of it as a fugue, she uses techniques of counterpoint and fugal structure to make the piece.”
fuguist
  1. (archaic) A musician who composes or performs fugues.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The DSM-IV says that the frotteurist and the fuguist, despite all conceivable arguments to the contrary, have lost their marbles, period and end of discussion.”
fuguists
  1. plural of fuguist
  2. Examples:
    1. “I just wanted to say great job to those fuguists who have posted fugues since I have been here last, they sound great!”
fugues
  1. plural of fugue
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He spent about a year of rigorous self-study fooling around with canons, fugues, invertible counterpoint, and so on.”
      “Late Beethoven tends to take fugues by the scruff of the neck and shake them till they howl.”
      “I just wanted to say great job to those fuguists who have posted fugues since I have been here last, they sound great!”
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