different between counterpoint vs fugue

English

Etymology 1

From counter- +? point, Middle French contrepoint.

Noun

counterpoint (countable and uncountable, plural counterpoints)

1. (music) A melody added to an existing one, especially one added to provide harmony whilst each retains its simultaneous identity; a composition consisting of such contrapuntal melodies.
   • 2009, Roger T. Dean, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music

     I noticed […] that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.

2. Any similar contrasting element in a work of art.
   • 2014, Nancy M. Marion, Willard M. Oliver, Drugs In American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics and the Law - p.188

     As counterpoints to the glamorous looks of 1980s models such as Chistie Brinkley and Heidi Klum, heroin chic looks such as Kate Moss were thin to the point of anorectic gauntness.

3. An opposite point.
   • 1605, Sir Edwin Sandys, Europae Speculum [A Relation of the State of Religion in Europe], in Mary Ellen Henley, Sir Edwin Sandy's Europae Speculum: a Critical Edition (2001)

     […] Priests; who affecting in them selves and their followers a certein Angelical puritie, fell sodainly to the very counterpoint of justifying bestialitie.

Synonyms

• contrapuntal music
• polyphony

Translations

Verb

counterpoint (third-person singular simple present counterpoints, present participle counterpointing, simple past and past participle counterpointed)

1. (transitive) To compose or arrange such music.
2. (transitive) To serve as an opposing point against.
   • 2011, Paul-François Tremlett, Religion and the Discourse on Modernity

     […] the dominant discourse on theory and method in the study of religions remains stuck on the debate about reductionism, which is in turn bent on representing the debate about theory and method in the study of religions as a choice between an unscientific phenomenology or an unsympathetic positivism (for phenomenology the idea that explanation is always 'bad' is perfectly counterpointed by the idea that religion is always 'good').

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French contrepointe, a corruption of coultepointe, from Latin culcita puncta, i.e. a stitched pillow or cover. See quilt.

Noun

counterpoint (plural counterpoints)

1. Obsolete form of counterpane.

Anagrams

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), from fugi? (“to flee”); compare Ancient Greek ???? (phug?). Apparently from the metaphor that the first part starts alone on its course, and is pursued by later parts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fju??/
• Rhymes: -u??

Noun

fugue (plural fugues)

1. (music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.
2. Anything in literature, poetry, film, painting, etc., that resembles a fugue in structure or in its elaborate complexity and formality.
3. A fugue state.

Derived terms

• fuguist

Related terms

• fugue state

Translations

Verb

fugue (third-person singular simple present fugues, present participle fuguing, simple past and past participle fugued)

1. To improvise, in singing, by introducing vocal ornamentation to fill gaps etc.

See also

• Wikipedia article on fugues

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy?/
• Homophones: fuguent, fugues

Etymology 1

Inflected forms of fuguer.

Verb

fugue

1. first-person singular present indicative of fuguer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fuguer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fuguer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fuguer
5. second-person singular imperative of fuguer

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin fuga. Doublet of fougue.

Noun

fugue f (plural fugues)

1. (informal) running away (from a place where one was staying)
2. (music) fugue

Synonyms

• (running away): fuite : flight, fleeing

Derived terms

• fuguer

Related terms

• fuir

Further reading

• “fugue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Verb

fugue

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fugar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fugar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fugar.