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🎶 Fugue-style singing 🎶 To sing in fugue
to fuguing

to fuguing

9.9
To sing or play parts with each voice entering one after another to make a layered sound
  • verb
  • /ˈfjuːɡɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fugar
  • In the final movement, the composer skillfully employed fuguing to create a lively and complex texture.

Examples

  • The choir began fuguing the hymn's last verse, each voice entering a bar later.

  • Can you hear them fuguing in the hall?

  • Students practiced fuguing short melodies to understand the structure of a fugue.

  • He is fuguing beautifully in the choir.

  • The choir began fuguing the hymn's last verse, with each voice entering a bar later.

  • In the final movement, the composer skillfully used fuguing to create a complex musical texture.

  • Students practiced fuguing short melodies to better understand fugue composition.

Synonyms

to fugue
vsto fuguing
  • Specialized
9.9

To write or play music where one melody is copied and joined by other parts

emphasizes staggered voice entries within that contrapuntal style

How Fugal

to fuguing
  • Specialized
9.9
to fugue
  • Specialized
9.9

Surface Forms

fuguing infinitive
fuguing present participle
fuguings third person singular
fugued past
fugued past participle

Morphology

fuguing = fugue (transparent) = fugue + ing

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

Etymology

Fuguing comes from fugue and the Latin fuga meaning 'flight' or 'chase'. So, to fuguing is to make voices 'chase' each other by entering at different times to create a layered, moving sound.