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Fugue State

◆◆ · Di woozy · Pubblicato 2024-09-16T06:25:46.267Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is an eight-letter word
I'm always impressed by metas that incorporate an additional dimensions and try to integrate external concept. So I thought I'd try this. Didn't really know what I was going to do and ... boy, was it difficult to execute. But it all came together in the end.
I'm not going to pretend this isn't difficult and convoluted. But I really think (hope) I included enough prompts and clues to make it feasible.
Anyway, however easy or hard or enjoyable or frustrating it might be to work, I do think it is original and creative. Good luck.
You may need to google. (By the way if anyone knows of a video of Bach performed on a gamelan please let me know.)
Nudges at https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=3130
This page (especially this section) may be useful.
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  • woozy costruttore · 2024-09-17T01:17:59.014Z
    They answer is CANDENCES.
    The grid represents the score of a three voice fugue. The left most column indicates the Treble and bass clefs and the second column indicates the notes that each row of the grid represents. The far right column indicate the range of the three voices: Soprano, Alto, Bass and the second to last column repeat the indication of the notes.
    The three phrases of the fugue are: the subject which consists of the notes FEEDBAGFDA; The answer which consists of the notes ABBAFEDCAB (with the exception of the leading A, these are the same notes of the subject shift up a fifth); and the counter subject which consists of the notes EGGACFAD (these are a play on the subject with notes in the counter-subject ascending where they descended in the subject and vice versa.
    The Alto introduces the subject in the rows in its range starting with the F-row at the circle square 61. The next two E notes are in the E-row in the next two columns. The letters in the grid for the notes FEEDBAGFDA spell out CALIFORNIA.
    The Soprano then voices the answer in the rows in the upper range for ABBAFEDCAB. Starting at the circled square the letters in the grid spell DELAWARENO.
    The next part fugue is the Alto voicing the counter-subject EGGACFAD starting and the circled square. In the grid these squares spell RTHCAROL.
    The next part is the Bass repeating the subject FEEDBAGFDA. Starting at the circled square the letters in the grid spell out INAESTONIA.
    So we have four states (not necessarily United States) California, Delaware, North Carolina, Estonia. The two letter codes for those are CA, DE,NC,ES which spell CADENCES
    • Pair O Ducks 20:50 · 2024-09-18T15:47:09.853Z
      Cool puzzle, woozy! I'm sure you didn't expect this to be possible, but shockingly enough, I think knowing TOO much about this subject kept me stumped for a while. You should see the scribblings I made in my staff pad notebook, trying to make sense of the rhythm or figure out exactly how the countersubject lined up with the other voices... It took me way too long to realize there's no way you'd expect solvers to do all that and actually look back at the rest of the grid (and those pesky circles!) Plus I really couldn't let go of "Feed Bag" in the clue for OAT needing to mean something. Anyways, suffice it to say I've been having fun nerding out with your music themed metas lately!
      • woozy costruttore · 2024-09-18T17:21:38.286Z
        Thank you so much for playing. I was worried after the first 48 hours that I had created something completely unsolvable.
      • kurtalert 🤓17:57 · 2024-09-18T16:28:20.223Z
        Holy guacamole. This puzzle definitely left me in a fugue state. woozy, you are a 145A!
        • woozy costruttore · 2024-09-18T17:22:27.725Z
          I'm so glad you liked it. I nearly knocked myself unconscious when I had done constructing.
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1A
        Timid Felines (abbr.)
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        Orizzontali
        1. 1A
          Timid Felines (abbr.)
        2. 3A
          The subject, introduced by the Alto and after the introduction picked by the Bass:: Sack for giving oats to horses-- Government Approved
        3. 13A
          Small city
        4. 17A
          South Korean appliance giant
        5. 20A
          Freaky Spaceman (abbr.)
        6. 22A
          Note between DO and MI
        7. 23A
          The answer, which is the subject transposed to the dominant key with a note or two changed, carried by the Soprano after the Alto's introduction of the subject:: The Swedish band gave food to the taxi
        8. 24A
          Give a country appearance to (chiefly. brit.)
        9. 26A
          Early prefix
        10. 27A
          Any of Asner, Begley, Begley Jr., Harris, Helms, McMahon, Norton, O'Neill, Sullivan, or Wood
        11. 28A
          The counter-subject, which is mostly an inverted variation of the subject (but two notes shorter), played by the Alto after the Alto's introduction of the subject:: Ovum cooling system which is temporarily trendy
        12. 29A
          Made uneasy
        13. 30A
          Displaced Persons (abbr.)
        14. 31A
          Before year one
        15. 33A
          Morsel in a Feed Bag
        16. 34A
          Birthmarks
        17. 35A
          Line break (via typewriter or computer coding)
        18. 36A
          16 oz.
        19. 37A
          Kanga's kid regrets nothing
        20. 40A
          Big Blue
        21. 43A
          Fam. mem.
        22. 44A
          Bi-aural sound system
        23. 46A
          Four year degree
        24. 47A
          "The Sims" video game company
        25. 48A
          A good condition to have for solving metas; but a bad condition to have for constructing them
        26. 49A
          Thingamajiggers
        27. 52A
          Yellowfin tuna
        28. 53A
          Palindromic explosive
        29. 54A
          Indefinite article for words beginning with a vowel
        30. 55A
          Computer Graphics (abbr.)
        31. 56A
          Frequent nightmare invader
        32. 57A
          River mouth
        33. 58A
          Move
        34. 59A
          Lettuce Foraging (abbr.)
        35. 61A
          Porter who wrote "Kiss me, Kate"
        36. 65A
          Digital magazine digest of eclectic articles focusing on cultural trends
        37. 68A
          Satirist who song "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park", "The Masochism Tango", "The Old Dope Peddler" and others
        38. 76A
          Note between MI and SOL
        39. 78A
          poet cummings initials
        40. 79A
          The first letters of the NATO alphabet
        41. 81A
          Constitutional change proposed in 1923 and which was ratified by VA. in 2020
        42. 83A
          Slower in music (abbr.)
        43. 84A
          Land of Wesex, Cork, and Limerick
        44. 85A
          Spanish masculine definite article
        45. 86A
          Frequently Dyslexic (abbr.)
        46. 88A
          C'est comme ça qu'on dit « est » en anglais
        47. 89A
          Like final tonic in a fugue when all the cadences resolve
        48. 92A
          Suffer healthwise
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          Bad withdrawal symptom (but just one)
        50. 94A
          Navratilova or Hingis
        51. 98A
          Round fig.
        52. 99A
          Land holding
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          Boulder's state
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          Be in debt
        55. 104A
          Italian luxury goods brand
        56. 107A
          Dual prefix
        57. 108A
          "Gosh, it's cold"
        58. 109A
          Goat's statement but interrupted before it could finish
        59. 110A
          Town known for a big party on Tuesdays
        60. 112A
          Available without a prescription
        61. 113A
          American Gamelan Institute (abbr.) (Because of my 48A tendencies, I just went down a rabbit hole trying to see if I could link to a video of Bach's "Art of the Fugue" performed on a gamelan as that would be an ultimate clue. Couldn't find anything. That's a lot of trouble for a clue that is only supposed to be a three-letter acronym)
        62. 114A
          _____phobia; fear of the dark
        63. 117A
          Abbreviation Needed (abbr.)
        64. 118A
          Agriculture (abbr.)
        65. 119A
          Army uniform color (Hex: #6B8E23 if you are n 48A type)
        66. 120A
          Vow
        67. 121A
          Singer Horne
        68. 122A
          Gorgeous George (abbr.)
        69. 123A
          Capital of NM
        70. 125A
          Vietnamese outfit
        71. 129A
          Wind to energy devices
        72. 139A
          Meta's main social media site (abbr.)
        73. 141A
          A U-turn from NW
        74. 142A
          Industry standard for ports and peripherals
        75. 144A
          Market value of all goods rendered by a country
        76. 145A
          Crazy guy
        77. 146A
          Definite article
        78. 147A
          Okay, they also made "Medal of Honor" and the "Star Wars" games (see 47A)
        79. 148A
          Music medium
        80. 149A
          "Beats me"
        81. 151A
          "__'_ be a pleasure"
        82. 152A
          Squeeze (by, as a living)
        83. 153A
          That MGWCC a few weeks ago?... with the Ch-ch-ch-es? Amiright? I mean, I never even heard of that singer who sang "Chandelier"? (Shhandelier? Tchandelier? ... They both sound wrong when you consciously say it out loud...)
        84. 154A
          Dusty Succotash (abbr.)
        85. 155A
          Locally Conceited (abbr.)
        86. 156A
          The utter antithesis of a fugue if you think about it
        87. 157A
          William Tell's canton
        88. 158A
          Up to the task
        89. 160A
          Some baseball guy named Mel or something. I dunno. It comes up in crosswords a lot.
        90. 161A
          .. Lewis; author of "The Screwtape Letters"
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          .. White; collaborator on "Elements of Style"
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          Puzzling and mysterious
        93. 166A
          Fellow student
        94. 169A
          Ice cream franchise with 31 flavors
        95. 170A
          Forget Antagonisms (abbr.)
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          Since meshed fabric is incapable of catching wind and propelling a boat, the ___ _____ were abysmal
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          Eighth pg. in most calendars
        98. 173A
          "___ _ a picture, why don't you?"
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          Na spelled backwards
        100. 175A
          Attempt
        101. 176A
          Fervent desire
        102. 177A
          Anger
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          Author of "All the Light We Cannot See" and "Cloud Cuckoo Land"
        104. 179A
          Phonetically, Best Picture of 1958 starring Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier
        Verticali
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          Where to put the notes for the Soprano, and half of the Alto Rng. in a musical score
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          Gave food to
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          Note that follows MI
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          ___ Stignani; Italian opera singer 1903-1974
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          '_ne'io _otanical _arden: Plant collection near Neiafu, Tonga
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          Wool matted with feces (not intentionally, I presume)
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          Four year art degree
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          U.S. Nuclear regulating body
        9. 9D
          File format for Geographic Data. (Not to be confused with GIS for... reasons)
        10. 10D
          Agricultural loan agncy. located in McLean, VA.
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          My old man
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          Blood type
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          Limited testing run; or courtroom procedure
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          Forcibly eject
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          Short hand for "concerning"
        16. 16D
          Sch. in Flagstaff, AZ
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          (with 73D) Believer in personal freedoms
        18. 18D
          Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and 51D: 67D
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          Ren's insult to Stimpy
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          Government agent
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          Upper musical range comprising of the upper two thirds of the Treble Clef
        22. 25D
          Stellar explosions caused by the merging of pairs of stars. (They give off light so they are _; their color is in the low frequency end of the visible light spectrum so they are _; and as they are exploding stars (in the Latin pural) so they are _ _)
        23. 29D
          (with letter below) Fails to perform
        24. 32D
          After rejecting that A-sack, and the B-tote, your third option for carrying groceries
        25. 35D
          Break-out song for the "Evif Noskcaj", a pop soul band that frequently performs at the Twin Peaks red room
        26. 37D
          (with letter below) Campus army training program
        27. 38D
          (with 62 down) Golfer Lorena (who is an anagram of a sneeze)
        28. 39D
          (with 63D) Author Scott who wrote "Island of the Blue Dolphins"
        29. 40D
          Marriage vow
        30. 41D
          (with 65 D) Not genuine
        31. 42D
          (with letter below) Champagne region
        32. 43D
          Suggested 24-hour dose
        33. 44D
          (with 71D) Small Scottish herding dog
        34. 45D
          (with letter below) Tessellation piece
        35. 50D
          (with 66D) Synthetic fiber for marine applications (anagrams to the snarky "center square" panelist, Paul)
        36. 51D
          (with 67D) Country with 50 states
        37. 52D
          (with 70D) 'Fess up
        38. 58D
          Fermi's constant
        39. 60D
          Iron on the periodic table
        40. 62D
          (see 38D)
        41. 63D
          (see 39D)
        42. 64D
          (with letter above) Be appropriate for
        43. 65D
          (see 41D)
        44. 66D
          (see 50D)
        45. 67D
          (see 51D)
        46. 69D
          Tolkien baddie
        47. 70D
          (see 52D)
        48. 71D
          (see 44D)
        49. 72D
          (with letter above) Definite article
        50. 73D
          (see 17D)
        51. 74D
          Boys name that anagrams to a grain
        52. 75D
          Depend upon
        53. 77D
          Mid musical range comprising of the lower third of the Treble Clef and the upper third of the Bass Clef
        54. 80D
          "Dream on!"
        55. 82D
          Spanish girlfriend
        56. 85D
          Mr. __; TV's talking horse
        57. 87D
          The United States capital
        58. 89D
          (with 128D) Road excursion
        59. 90D
          (with 131D) The king who returned in a Tolkien epic
        60. 91D
          Peacock-run business news channel
        61. 94D
          Alkaline California Lake that sounds like the opposite of 44A
        62. 95D
          Off base
        63. 96D
          (with 125D) Quality of being dependable
        64. 97D
          (with 127D) Modern (the 1960s as opposed to the 1910s) absurdist art movement
        65. 100D
          (with letter below) Garlicky mayo
        66. 101D
          Citizens Band; (a bit of a fad in the 70s... it made sense at the time)
        67. 102D
          Carrying tote, or sack
        68. 105D
          Nipper's electronics company
        69. 106D
          (with 132D) Mazda two-seater
        70. 109D
          Where to put the notes for the Bass rng. and half the Alto rng. in a musical score
        71. 111D
          (with letter below) Totes key ingredient in guac
        72. 114D
          (with 134D) Laniidae birds that impale their prey on thorns (anagrams to sounds they can make)
        73. 115D
          (with 136D) Peg for a camping shelter
        74. 116D
          (with 137D) Great feat for a pitcher (but not a perfect game)
        75. 117D
          Silver on the periodic table
        76. 124D
          First six letters of the alphabet in reverse order
        77. 125D
          (see 96D)
        78. 126D
          (with letter above) Sharp rim
        79. 127D
          (see 97D)
        80. 128D
          (see 89D)
        81. 129D
          (with letter above) European region with 3 states
        82. 130D
          Birth control device
        83. 131D
          (see 90D)
        84. 132D
          (see 106D)
        85. 133D
          (with letter above) Guardianship, mentorship
        86. 134D
          (see 114D)
        87. 135D
          Before year one
        88. 136D
          (see 115D)
        89. 137D
          (see 116D)
        90. 138D
          (with letter above) Off-shore
        91. 139D
          "Drappel ___"; heavy metal band that frequently performs at the "Twin Peaks" red room
        92. 140D
          Low musical range comprising of the lower two thirds of the Bass Clef
        93. 142D
          Still in the Drafts folder
        94. 143D
          Rather than later
        95. 150D
          Faithful companions
        96. 151D
          From the land of Wexford, Cork, and Limerick
        97. 157D
          Off-road vehicles useful to cruciverbalists
        98. 158D
          Trendy berry useful to cruciverbalists
        99. 159D
          Fuzzy image
        100. 160D
          Hawaiian bird that isn't a nene (thrush, not goose)
        101. 161D
          First three letters of the alphabet in reverse order
        102. 164D
          Gaping mouth
        103. 165D
          "Love Story" actress MacGraw
        104. 167D
          Norm
        105. 168D
          Body part you h___ with
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