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fugue2 CONSTRUCTSMusical fugueMARPURG · FUGUE TREATISEDissociative fugueTISSIÉ · CLINICAL FUGUE

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Music theory

An imitative contrapuntal composition

A fugue is a piece of music built by imitation: a short melody called the subject is announced by one voice and then taken up in turn by the other voices, each entering while the earlier ones keep going, so that several independent lines sound at once. Marpurg's 1753 Abhandlung von der Fuge (Treatise on the Fugue) set out how the subject, its answer in a related key, and the accompanying countermelodies are combined and developed, and Walker's 2001 Grove Music entry Fugue traces the form from its Renaissance roots through Bach and after. Mann's 1958 The Study of Fugue gathers the classic teaching treatises in English. The referent here is a way of writing and hearing overlapping melodic lines, described by its subject and voices, not a period of memory loss and wandering in a person.[1][2][3]

Unit
One composition or passage in fugal form, described by its subject and number of voices
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Analysed by tracing the subject, its answer, and the voice entries through the score

Psychiatry and psychology

A reversible episode of amnesic travel

In psychiatry a fugue is a reversible episode in which a person, without warning, travels or wanders away from home and cannot afterward recall the period, at times with confusion about personal identity. Tissié's 1887 Les aliénés voyageurs (Wandering Patients) gave the founding clinical description through the case of a man who made long, unremembered journeys, and Janet's 1907 The Major Symptoms of Hysteria placed such episodes within his account of dissociation. The American Psychiatric Association's 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (fifth edition) classifies dissociative fugue as a form of dissociative amnesia marked by such travel and memory loss. The referent here is a documented pattern of behavior and memory in a person, defined by its onset and reversibility, not a musical form built from imitating voices.[4][5][6]

Unit
One episode of unexpected travel with later inability to recall it
Recovery means
The episode is reversible, and memory of the period may or may not return afterward
Measured by
Identified in clinical assessment from a history of unremembered travel and, where used, standardized dissociation measures

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References

  1. Marpurg, F. W. (1753). Abhandlung von der Fuge. Berlin, Germany: A. Haude und J. C. Spener.
  2. Mann, A. (1958). The study of fugue. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
  3. Walker, P. M. (2001). Fugue. In Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.51678
  4. Tissié, P. (1887). Les aliénés voyageurs: Essai médico-psychologique. Paris, France: O. Doin.
  5. Janet, P. (1907). The major symptoms of hysteria. New York, NY: Macmillan.
  6. American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596

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