Definition of Countersubject. Meaning of Countersubject. Synonyms of Countersubject

- is called the 'countersubject'. The countersubject usually contrasts with the subject/answer phrase shape. In a fugue, a countersubject is "the continuation...
- called a countersubject; if this accompanying material is only heard once, it is simply referred to as free counterpoint. The countersubject is written...
- second voice in the tonic key while the initial voice either plays a countersubject or plays in free counterpoint. The development comprises the bulk of...
- Reeves is credited with this innovation in 1876. The more formal term countersubject applies to a secondary or subordinate melodic idea in a fugue. A countermelody...
- accompanied by countersubject) with a counterexposition in which the subject accompanies itself, in stretto, followed by the countersubject accompanying...
- countersubject inverted in b****, with derived alto part bars 18–20: episode derived from countersubject bars 21–23: subject in b****, countersubject in...
- countersubject in the violin. As in the first part, there is a reprise of both interludes followed by a statement of the fugue subject/countersubject...
- absent from Buxtehude's. Most of Lübeck's fugues have an obbligato countersubject, commonly introduced during the first statement of the subject: The...
- Elaboration on b**** theme Variation A1 Variation I Variation (with countersubject) First variation of Theme X Variation I Variation a 4 60 - 75 Elaboration...
- name BACH [for which the English notation would be B♭–A–C–B♮] in the countersubject to this fugue, the composer died.") The following page contains a list...