Countersubject
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Countersubject is a noun meaning (music) The secondary melody in contrapuntal music.
Meaning
(music) The secondary melody in contrapuntal music.
Example Sentences
In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune.
Word Forms
- countersubjects
- counter-subject
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include countermelody, counter-melody, counterline, counterpoint, contrapuntalism, contrapunto.
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