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136 286. Our next illustration is by Spohr. The original subject of the fugue is

In the last and closest stretto of this fugue, only the first notes of the subject are imitated by the alto and tenor; but the treble, which enters last, gives the entire subject, though with some modifications of detail.

287. Our last examples, by a living composer, will illustrate the modern freedom of treatment in a stretto.