[f. prec. sb.] intr. To compose, or perform, a fugue. (Nonce-use, to fugue it.)
1834. Beckford, Italy, I. 4. Half-a-dozen squeaking fiddles fugued and flourished away in the galleries.
1894. Du Maurier, Trilby, I. 41. They turned it and twised it, and went from one key to another, playing into each other’s hands, Svengali taking the lead; and fugued and canoned and counterpointed and battledored and shuttlecocked it.
So Fuguing vbl. sb.; Fuguing ppl. a. (= FUGUED ppl. a.).
1694. Purcell, Playford’s Skill Mus. (1697), 98. The third sort of Fugeing is called a Double Fuge.
1731. Rules for Thorow-Bass, in Holder’s Harmony, 200. Short Lessons by way of Fugeing.
1795. Mason, Ch. Mus., ii. 104. Dr. Tudway … had the boldness to declare, ‘that the practice of fuguing in vocal music obscured the sense.’
1862. W. W. Story, Roba di Roma (1864), I. iv. 48. The fuguing chants of the Papal choir sound in the dome and down the aisles, while the Holy Father ministers at the altar, and a motley crowd parade and jostle and saunter through the church.
1878. Mrs. Stowe, Poganuc People, vii. 56. Those old fuguing tunes were like the same [calm] ocean aroused by storming winds.
