Understanding the Tonal Answer
Understanding the Tonal Answer
Understanding the Tonal Answer
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• Modulating fugue subjects are uncommon<br />
• The new key is always V.<br />
• The answer MUST modulate back to I (i), because<br />
to allow <strong>the</strong> answer to modulate up to its dominant<br />
is unacceptable so early in <strong>the</strong> fugue (C Å G Å D?).<br />
• At some point, <strong>the</strong> answer is transposed up only a<br />
P4 instead of a P5 (C Å G Å C).<br />
• There is no definite formula for answering<br />
modulating fugue subjects that works in all cases.