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Question 204

In this question you will hear the opening of an orchestral fugue.
You are required to complete this guide by inserting musical concepts.
Play this excerpt twice

and this excerpt once.


1. This is the opening of a 4-part fugue. The first instrument heard is a/an playing the subject. The tonality is .

2. The first instrument continues but now plays the while a cor anglais plays the .

3. A/an plays the next entry of the subject.

4. The excerpt finishes after the 4th entry. This opening section of a fugue is called the . This music was written in the period.