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Definition of Fuguists
1. fuguist [n] - See also: fuguist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fuguists
Literary usage of Fuguists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"The Subjects employed by the great fuguists are always found to be capable of
suggesting a logical Answer, and one or more good Counter-subjects ;l of being ..."
2. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889): ...edited by Sir by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1890)
"The Subjects employed by the great fuguists are always found to be capable of
suggesting a logical Answer, and one or more good ' Counter-Subjects ..."
3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"... though the great fuguists have always arranged their plans in accordance with
certain well-recognised devices, which are universally regarded as common ..."
4. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1856)
"Formerly the fuguists modulated very cautiously and carefully. They moved step
by step, from one resting point to another, from one key to its next related, ..."
5. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... in music, a term confined to the language of fuguists, r.nd is the doubling
the value of the notes of the subject of a fugue or canon : or, ..."
6. Music and manners in France and Germany: A Series of Travelling Sketches of by Henry Fothergill Chorley (1841)
"Classical preluders and steady fuguists will come in time; and I think a Schneider
or a Mendelssohn would run as fair a chance, just now, of becoming the ..."
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