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The subject is genuinely interesting, though the counter-subject is as perfunctory as most counter-subjects.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

His artistic sense compelled him to veil the acuteness of his agony in the strict form of a regular fugue; but here, as everywhere else in the Requiem, feeling triumphs over the artistic sense; and by a chromatic change, of which none but a Mozart or a Bach would have dreamed, the inexpressive formality of the counter-subject is altered into a passionate appeal for mercy.

Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891

While all of a fugue is contained within the original subject, and the counter-subject, which accompanies it at every repetition, it has an element of tonality in it which places it upon an immensely higher plane of musical art than any form known, or possible, before the obsolescence of the ecclesiastical modes.

A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874

The voice which has completed the subject goes on with the counter-subject or the counterpoint while the second voice is singing the subject.

The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations 1874

These are pieces which have to last between a minute and 90 seconds, so you don't have the luxury of a sonata or song structure where you can go to a counter-subject or a chorus.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

For instance, in the first movement alone we hear passages of piano solo, piano with cello accompaniment, cello with a substantial piano counter-subject, cello with only light piano accompaniment, and counterpoint in which the two partners are equal.

Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

Bach intended to demonstrate his catholic mastery of all sorts of transformational devices - rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic, the progression moving from the relatively simple to the more complex in a series of twenty-four evolutions, the latter of which incorporate Bach's own name as a counter-subject, written as B-flat-A-C-B-natural.

Audiophile Audition Headlines 2010

The subject and counter-subject of "Thou art the King of

Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians John F. Runciman 1891