Fugue with the greatest number of subjects?

1. What is the subject in a fugue?
2. Which part of a fugue accompanies the subject?
3. What is a triple fugue?
4. How do you identify a subject and answer in a fugue?

What is the subject in a fugue?

The "subject" of a fugue is its main theme. It is generally short--one or two measures--but may be longer (3-4 measures).

Which part of a fugue accompanies the subject?

The subject may be begun in one part as usual but then proceed immediately in another as well, before the first statement has finished. This overlapping, called stretto, is often found near the end of a fugue, as a means of building to a climax, but may occur anywhere, usually after the exposition.

What is a triple fugue?

: a musical fugue (see fugue entry 1 sense 1b) in which three subjects (see subject entry 1 sense 3f) are treated both separately and simultaneously.

How do you identify a subject and answer in a fugue?

A fugue begins with the exposition of its subject in one of the voices alone in the tonic key. After the statement of the subject, a second voice enters and states the subject with the subject transposed to another key (usually the dominant or subdominant), which is known as the answer.