Translation guide
A musical form where a theme is introduced and then repeated by different voices in counterpoint. Also used in psychiatry for a dissociative state.
A contrapuntal composition where a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others.
The standard loanword from Italian 'fuga', used in classical music contexts.
A dissociative state where a person wanders away from their usual environment and may have amnesia for their past.
The psychiatric term uses '遁走' (tonsō), which means 'flight' or 'escape', but in everyday Japanese, '遁走' is not used for ordinary running away. It is a technical term.
バッハのフーガは対位法の傑作です。
Bach's fugues are masterpieces of counterpoint.
A rare kanji term for fugue, literally 'escape piece'. Mostly found in older or very formal musicology texts.
This fugue is written for four voices.
Patients with dissociative fugue may not remember who they are.
Literally 'fugue state', used in psychiatric contexts. Slightly less formal than the full clinical term.
He went missing for days in a fugue state.