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It is somewhat unusual for the first voice to leave off on the entry of the third, as here at bar 5; generally (and preferably) it continues, as in our other examples, with a free counterpoint. The final entry (bar 10) is only partial, not more than the first half of the subject being given by the treble; from the eleventh bar, the polyphonic style is abandoned, and in the coda all the voices move together in plain chords.
358. The word Fugato simply means "fugued," and is applied to passages written in the fugal style—that is to say, in which the same subject is introduced successively in the. different voices—but in which the entries are not at the regular
