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Excerpt from The New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. 8: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge; Fugger-Haynau
Fugue at. Ma, ¿ight), a species of mu sicel composition in which one voice or part seems to be perpetually ¿ying away from eu other, whence the name. The principal musical thought of the iece, or the subject, having been performed y one voice or part, is taken up by another, and so on with all the voices or parts, each commencing after the others, and all performing together. The result is an end less pursuit and ¿ight of the same theme by the different parts. Eiguss are simple, double, or counter the latter bein much the most complicated, and afford a wi e field for inven tion, of which the older composers frequently took advantage.
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