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Chap. III.] in passing, the shortening of the last note of the answer at (b)—(§ 57).

90. That the answering of tonic by dominant, and dominant by tonic, applies only to the beginning of the subject is clearly shown by the examples of real answers quoted in § 59 and § 83 (b), both of which contain the leap from tonic to dominant in the second bar, not answered by the leap from dominant to tonic.

91. Though the general practice of the great masters is, as has been already said, to answer the leap between tonic and dominant tonally, a real answer under such circumstances is not infrequent, especially when the leap is downwards—

In not one of these examples (and more could be given) is dominant answered by tonic, but in each instance by the dominant of the dominant key.