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ˈcounterˌsubject Mus.
[counter- 12.]
A subordinate melody forming an essential part of a fugue, written against, or as accompaniment to, the subject and answer. Also in non-fugal music.
1854tr. Cherubini's Counterpoint 64 In a two-part fugue there can be only one counter-subject. 1880Ouseley in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 568 s.v. Fugue, When the countersubject is introduced simultaneously with the subject at the beginning of a fugue, it should be looked on rather as a second subject. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xi. 148 One speaks of dialogues in one movement, of subject and counter⁓subject set apart. 1955G. Abraham in H. van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman ii. 23 Wagner adds an oboe counter-subject here. |