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Chap. VI.] last note of the answer will be the third or fifth of the dominant, against both of which the tonic is a dissonance.

In both these examples the answer ends with the tonic chord of the dominant key and of this chord the original tonic forms no part.

194. We will now write an exposition of a fugue in three parts, taking a very simple and straightforward subject, and adding a regular countersubject.

We have begun with the upper voice, to let all the parts enter in regular descending order. Notice first how, by means of