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🎶 Fugue-style singing 🎶 To sing in fugue
fuguing

fuguing

9.9
A musical style with voices entering one after another to make a layered sound
  • noun
  • /ˈfjuːɡɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fugado
  • A more advanced choir may begin reading in four parts immediately, starting with diatonic or primarily diatonic music in a variety of keys, such as easy Bach chorales or early American fuguing tunes.

Examples

  • An early American fuguing tune (four-part diatonic)

    Academic text (1998)

  • The choir performed a beautiful fuguing piece that showcased overlapping melodies.

  • In her composition class, she learned about fuguing and practiced writing parts that interwove melodically.

  • The conductor explained the technique of fuguing to the musicians to enhance the harmony of their performance.

Synonyms

polyphony
vsfuguing
  • Specialized
1 8.6

Music with several different melodies heard at the same time

is a fugue like style with overlapping voices rather than any multi melody music

How Fugal

fuguing
  • Specialized
9.9
polyphony
  • Specialized
1 8.6
homophony
  • Specialized
9.6

Surface Forms

fuguing singular
fuguings plural

Morphology

fuguing = fugue (transparent) = fugue + ing

This is the regular -ing form of the verb 'fugue', and the musical meaning is directly recoverable from the base verb.

Etymology

Fuguing comes from fugue, which comes from the Latin fuga meaning 'flight' or 'chase'. Think of each voice 'chasing' the next as it enters, so a fuguing section is a musical passage where parts enter in turn and overlap.