Following Fux's Dictum

Today's offering is in the same spirit and with the same intent as yesterday's -- exploring the relationship between Fux's fugue subject dictum (to write something that suits that mode and no other) and canon writing.

Today, the phrygian.

consider this alignment:

C D E F G A
G A B C D E

The tonic is E and the dominant is B. there is a half step (marked in bold) right above each and the rest of the pitches listed are in whole steps. You can see that there are possibilities of exact imitation that encompass the range of a major sixth that could emphasize the half step placement that is so characteristic of this mode.

That's what I did. It is in the style of Fux.

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