Rather than moving on to the fifth fugue, we have a brief visit to the first of four canons from "The Art of Fugue" by J.S. Bach:

Canon in Hypodiapason (Canon at the octave).

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The First Canon in The Art of Fugue: Where do these pieces belong, and how do they get much more complicated than this?!