Counterexposition

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An exposition that responds to, or counters, another exposition.

    "The process, repeated, forms an exposition answered with a finale or counterexposition. The root of fugue is flight or fleeing and in musicology is eventually connected to a flight of fancy that brings us back to fantasia."

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"The process, repeated, forms an exposition answered with a finale or counterexposition. The root of fugue is flight or fleeing and in musicology is eventually connected to a flight of fancy that brings us back to fantasia."

Etymology

From counter- + exposition.

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