Fugue

I love music! Who doesn't? Sitting down tonight, pressed to come up with a word (which always happens), I turned to my friends to come up with one. Of course, they played the "hey, let's just close our eyes and yell out 1000000000000 different words" game. However, one was eventually yelled out that seemed to spark something inside of me. Naturally, it dealt with music.

Fugue, a noun, is defined by the illustrious AHD as "an imitative polyphonic composition in which a theme or themes are stated successively in all of the voices of the contrapuntal structure." In other words, it is a set of themes expressed as a round within a piece (traditionally within classical pieces). Fugue comes from the Italian word fuga, which was influenced by the French word fugue. Fuga came from Latin, where it originally meant "flight." A fugue usually appears in the middle of a piece, and it usually ends on a soaring high-point. In a way, it is kind of like watching the piece learn to fly (with all the little themes going off one after another), and it ends with the whole thing being placed together in one motion that seems to lift the music right off the ground....very reminiscent of flight.


Oh, and as an aside:

Fugu fish actually exist. It's mind blowing, I know. Also, they are all poisonous pufferfish.
"Swim away fugu fish, swim away!!!!" ~ Charlie the Unicorn 2