فوگ

Also known as fughetta, fugal, fuge, fuga

thumb|The six-part fugue in the "Ricercar a 6" from [[The Musical Offering, in the hand of Johann Sebastian Bach]] In classical music, a fugue (, from Latin , meaning 'flight' or 'escape') is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition. It is not to be confused with a fuguing tune, which is a style of song popularized by and mostly limited to early American (i.e. shape note or "Sac