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countersubjects

countersubjects is the plural of countersubject.

Meaning of countersubject

Noun

countersubject (plural countersubjects)

  1. The secondary melody in contrapuntal music.
    • In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other...1902 [1898], [George] Bernard Shaw, The Perfect Wagnerite […] , second edition, London: Grant Richards, page 3

Questions about countersubjects

What is countersubjects the plural of?
Countersubjects is the plural of countersubject.

Words near countersubjects in the dictionary

  1. counterstudies
  2. counterstudy
  3. counterstyle
  4. counterstyles
  5. countersubject
  6. countersubjects
  7. countersubversion
  8. countersubversive
  9. countersubversives
  10. countersue
  11. countersued

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