Form

• A fugue is a contrapuntal piece based on a theme announced in one voice part and then imitated by other voices in close succession
• The subject of a composition is the main theme
• An answer is in a fugu and is after the subject has played, the same tune appears in another voice or part in the dominant
• A counter subject is in a fugue after the subject or answer is played
• the continuation of the same instrument or voice is called the counter subject
• A stretto is when voices or instruments enter quickly after one another (as in a fugue)
• A canon is a strict duplication of one voice to another, often lasting the entire piece
• A stretto is a momentary lapse of a fugue subject between different voices