Definition of countersubject in English:

countersubject

nounˈkaʊntəˌsʌbdʒɛktˈkountərˌsəbjikt

Music

A second or subsidiary subject, especially accompanying the subject or its answer in a fugue.
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Example sentencesExamples
- He excelled the skills even of Frescobaldi in the manipulation of fugal devices such as countersubject, stretto and sustained pedalpoint.
- There remains one composition by Buxtehude, a canzonetta in A minor that is clearly similar to the opening of the first fugue of the A major toccata in both the shape and treatment of its subject and countersubject.
- Additional counterpoint is called ‘free’, but such material may be restated in an identical form, as if it were a second countersubject.
- Normally there is a dynamic interplay between subject and countersubject in a fugue, but here the energy is concentrated in the subject, with the countersubject limply shadowing it in thirds and sixths.
- In both pieces a fugue follows without a break and the fugue is created by stating the subject at the tonic and the fifth, with little in the way of a countersubject.

Definition of countersubject in US English:

countersubject

nounˈkountərˌsəbjikt

Music

A second or subsidiary subject, especially accompanying the subject or its answer in a fugue.
〔乐〕对题
Example sentencesExamples
- There remains one composition by Buxtehude, a canzonetta in A minor that is clearly similar to the opening of the first fugue of the A major toccata in both the shape and treatment of its subject and countersubject.
- Normally there is a dynamic interplay between subject and countersubject in a fugue, but here the energy is concentrated in the subject, with the countersubject limply shadowing it in thirds and sixths.
- Additional counterpoint is called ‘free’, but such material may be restated in an identical form, as if it were a second countersubject.
- He excelled the skills even of Frescobaldi in the manipulation of fugal devices such as countersubject, stretto and sustained pedalpoint.
- In both pieces a fugue follows without a break and the fugue is created by stating the subject at the tonic and the fifth, with little in the way of a countersubject.

单词	countersubject
释义	Definition of countersubject in English: countersubject nounˈkaʊntəˌsʌbdʒɛktˈkountərˌsəbjikt Music A second or subsidiary subject, especially accompanying the subject or its answer in a fugue. 〔乐〕对题 Example sentencesExamples He excelled the skills even of Frescobaldi in the manipulation of fugal devices such as countersubject, stretto and sustained pedalpoint. There remains one composition by Buxtehude, a canzonetta in A minor that is clearly similar to the opening of the first fugue of the A major toccata in both the shape and treatment of its subject and countersubject. Additional counterpoint is called ‘free’, but such material may be restated in an identical form, as if it were a second countersubject. Normally there is a dynamic interplay between subject and countersubject in a fugue, but here the energy is concentrated in the subject, with the countersubject limply shadowing it in thirds and sixths. In both pieces a fugue follows without a break and the fugue is created by stating the subject at the tonic and the fifth, with little in the way of a countersubject. Definition of countersubject in US English: countersubject nounˈkountərˌsəbjikt Music A second or subsidiary subject, especially accompanying the subject or its answer in a fugue. 〔乐〕对题 Example sentencesExamples There remains one composition by Buxtehude, a canzonetta in A minor that is clearly similar to the opening of the first fugue of the A major toccata in both the shape and treatment of its subject and countersubject. Normally there is a dynamic interplay between subject and countersubject in a fugue, but here the energy is concentrated in the subject, with the countersubject limply shadowing it in thirds and sixths. Additional counterpoint is called ‘free’, but such material may be restated in an identical form, as if it were a second countersubject. He excelled the skills even of Frescobaldi in the manipulation of fugal devices such as countersubject, stretto and sustained pedalpoint. In both pieces a fugue follows without a break and the fugue is created by stating the subject at the tonic and the fifth, with little in the way of a countersubject.
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