A unit of thematically distinctive material that sounds against the subject of a fugue is called the ____
A) couplet
B) invertible counterpoint
C) countersubject
D) stretto
C
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A) ?chiaroscuro B) ?quadro riportato C) ?sfumato D) ?trompe l'oeil
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