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Chap. VIII.] 258. At one bar's distance we can get a stretto in the fifth below.

We might here also have preserved the tonal form of the answer by treating the A in the second bar as an accented passing note.

In the fourth bar we have varied the rhythm of the imitating voice, to retain the subject in the leading voice for half a bar longer. Obviously we could not write

Such slight modifications, either of rhythm or melody, are very common, and always permissible in a stretto. We now give the inversion of the above.

259. Lastly, we can make a stretto with this subject at only half a bar's distance.

Like most of the preceding, this stretto can be inverted in the octave.

260. If now we begin with the answer instead of the subject, we shall obtain a different series of stretti, though resembling those already given in their general character.