The document discusses the difference between real and tonal answers in fugues. A real answer is an exact transposition of the subject up a fifth, while a tonal answer modifies some intervals to keep it in the tonic key area. The document provides examples from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier to illustrate when a composer would choose a real versus tonal answer, such as when the subject begins on or modulates to the fifth scale degree.

1. Finding the Answer A lecture on the subject of answers

4. How does one choose between a real or a tonal answer? Read on….

6. Real or Tonal Answer? Try these examples from the Well-Tempered Clavier

11. Are you comfortable with this.. Emotionally?

13. In the next lesson… We’ll learn how to write a tonal answer