COUNTERSUBJECT


Meaning of COUNTERSUBJECT in English

/kown"teuhr sub"jikt/ , n. Music.

a theme in a fugue that occurs simultaneously with the second and often the subsequent themes of the main subject.

[ 1850-55; COUNTER- + SUBJECT ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .