Definition of Fugal

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or in the style of a musical fugue.

Partainyms: Fugue
Derivative terms: Fugue

Definition of Fugal

1. Adjective. (music) of, relating to, or composed using a fugue ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fugal

1. being in the style of a fugue [adj] : FUGALLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fugal

fuff
fuffed
fuffier
fuffiest
fuffing
fuffs
fuffy
fufu
fug
fugacious
fugaciously
fugaciousness
fugacities
fugacity
fugacy
fugal (current term)
fugally
fugato
fugatos
fugged
fuggedaboudit
fuggedaboutit
fuggier
fuggiest
fuggily
fugging
fuggy
fugh
fughetta

Literary usage of Fugal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"... —Palestrina to Handel—Imitation and Imitative Passages —Canons—The Flower of Counterpoint is Fugue—fugal Style ..."

2. Music and Musicians by Albert Lavignac (1903)
"This is not true as to compositions in the fugal style, or simply in counterpoint, which find their place everywhere. In studies of harmony, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The use of ¡minted through tho cloth by means of the contri- ¡decomposition of any insoluble fatty acid eom- fugal pump fop one hour. ..."

4. An Elizabethan Virginal Book: Being a Critical Essay on the Contents of a by Edward Woodall Naylor (1905)
"... CHAPTER VI fugal FANTASIAS (ONE SUBJECT) UP to this point we have tried (and, of course, failed) to deal completely with the Dances of the Fitzwilliam ..."

5. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... —Canons—The Flower of Counterpoint is Fugue—fugal Style and Structure—Fugue and Cadences—Bach's Violin Sonatas—His Organ Fugues—Mozart's Wonderful Skill ..."

6. The Story of Musical Form by Clarence Lucas (1908)
"... to Handel—Imitation and imitative passages—Flower of counterpoint is fugue—fugal style and structure—Fugue and cadences— Bach's violin sonatas—His organ ..."

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