Here the subject enters three bars after the answer. We give the inversion.
261. We next show the answer followed by the subject at two bars' distance.
It will be seen that the leading voice cannot here continue the subject to the end. This imitation inverts as follows—
262. At one bar's distance the answer cannot be comfortably imitated by the subject. Here, therefore, we make the imitation in the octave; and even at this interval we cannot continue it long.
263. At half a bar's distance, it is possible to reply with the subject, and the imitation can be continued somewhat farther than in the last example.
The above will also invert—
264. Hitherto we have only given stretti in two parts; but the subject we have chosen will also work in stretto in
