REAL FUGUE. That species of Fugue in which the intervals of the Subject and Answer correspond exactly, without reference—as in Tonal Fugue—to the Tonic and Dominant of the scale in which they are written. Thus, in the following example, the Answer is an exact reproduction of the Subject, in the fifth above:—
whereas, according to the laws of Tonal Fugue, the Tonic in the Subject should have been represented in the Answer by the Dominant, and vice versâ; thus—; thus—...