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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The first known use of fuguing tune was in 1855
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