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122 It would occupy too much space to analyze this passage fully. The student, with the aid we have given him by marking all the entries, will have no difficulty in doing it for himself. But this extract illustrates a point we have not yet had occasion to notice. It contains two pedal points, first dominant and then tonic. These, the former especially, are not seldom to be met with toward the close of a fugue, more particularly with vocal fugues; and when they are found, it is very common also to find close stretti built above them.

273. A stretto may be made from only a part of the subject of a fugue, with a new continuation. The "Amen" chorus of the 'Messiah' furnishes a familiar illustration of this; the subject of the fugue is too well known to need quotation.