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Chap. VII.] We give extracts from two of the episodes.

Another good example of the same kind will be seen in Bach's great Organ Fugue in E minor,

228. In both the cases. just referred to, the episode is of a more florid character than the subject of the fugue. In the great fugue which forms the finale of Beethoven's Sonata, Op. 106, the theme of which commences thus—

we find an example of a different kind. Here is an episode in the key of D major, which itself begins like the exposition of a fugue—

After this episode has been developed for 29 bars, Beethoven