I wish I could tell you about a fugue - podcast

I came across today's word on Dean's site hannotte.net. The word is fugue and Dean is a listener who let me know googolplex may not be the largest named number. Skewes' numbers and Graham's number maybe larger. But as Dean poined out the idea of the largest named finite number is silly. A named number could be defined as the largest named number plus one.

Back to a Fugue. In psychology it is a rare disorder in which a person suffers a memory lapse and then flees their home or job. The person may then assume a new identity completely forgetting their previous life. Fugues usually occur during times of extreme stress and rarely last more than a month.

More commonly a Fugue is a specifc type of musical composition. Now I usually research several sources for each podcast and then summarize what I think are the key elements. But I know so little about music I will quote the wikipedia definition.

I did compare that definition against several others and it seems complete to me. But the study of music is not my forte.

Fugue comes from the Latin fuga which means flight and fugere meaning to flee.

You can listen to Johann Sebastian Bach's C-minor fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier I, in 3 voices courtesy of wikipedia.