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countersubject

KOWN-tur-sub-jekt

[English]

The secondary theme of a fugue, heard against the subject. Also called a countertheme.


Example


Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 903


Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080, Contrapunctus 1



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