countersubjectn.
Music.
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.
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countersubject1854
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1854 tr. Cherubini's Counterpoint 64 In a two-part fugue there can be only one counter-subject.
1880 Ouseley in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 568 at 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.
1947 A. Einstein Music Romantic Era xi. 148 One speaks of dialogues in one movement, of subject and counter~subject set apart.
1955 G. Abraham in H. van Thal Fanfare for E. Newman ii. 23 Wagner adds an oboe counter-subject here.
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