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- What is Countersubject in fugue?
- What is the Countersubject music?
- Which of the following is a good example of fugue?
What is Countersubject in fugue?
In a fugue, a countersubject is "the continuation of counterpoint in the voice that began with the subject", occurring against the answer. It is not usually regarded as an essential feature of fugue, however.
What is the Countersubject music?
noun Music. a theme in a fugue that occurs simultaneously with the second and often the subsequent themes of the main subject.
Which of the following is a good example of fugue?
In Mozart's Fugue in G Minor, K 401, for piano four hands (1782), the two subjects are melodic inversions of each other. Two excellent examples of triple fugue (i.e., having three subjects) are Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, No. 4, and his Fugue in E-flat Major for organ, BWV 552, called the St.
