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299. The first section of this fugue contains only the exposition. Though the subject is announced in an outer part, we do not find here the additional entry spoken of in § 186; perhaps because of the extent of the subject, which is the longest of any in the 'Forty-Eight.' The exposition ends in the 18th bar, and is immediately followed by the first episode (bars 18 to 23). As this episode does not introduce a new entry in either tonic or dominant key, but modulates to the relative major, we see