Consequent
(KON-se-kwent)


[Lat.]

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The answer in a fugue, or point of imitation. A musical phrase which follows another, similar phrase. In a musical period, the antecedent and consequent are two balancing halves, somewhat like a rhymed couplet in poetic verse, with the movement of the first half completed by the second.

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