Text: A strict fugue. The term is now used in opposition to a tonal fugue. The answer in a real fugue being a fifth higher or a fourth lower than the subject, note for note; that in a tonal fugue being so far altered that dominant answers tonic and vice versa. So that in a tonal fugue, a subject occupying a compass of five notes, namely from a tonic to its dominant, has to be answered in a compass of four notes, namely from the dominant to the tonic lying above it. See Hughes' Harmonies of Tones and Colors.

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