A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Dux
DUX (leader), an early term for the first subject in a fugue—that which leads; the answer being the comes or companion. The dux is in German called Führer.
From volume 1 of the work.
DUX (leader), an early term for the first subject in a fugue—that which leads; the answer being the comes or companion. The dux is in German called Führer.