fuguing tune

noun

variants: or fuguing piece or fuging tune or less commonly fuge tune

Definition of fuguing tune

: a hymn written in a style popular in England and the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries employing simple contrapuntal imitation in its middle section

— called also fuge

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