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Subject and counter-subject detection for analysis of the Well-Tempered Clavier fugues 1 2 2 Mathieu Giraud , Richard Groult , and Florence Lev´e 1 LIFL, CNRS, Universit´e Lille 1 and INRIA Lille, France 2 MIS, Universit´e Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France Abstract. Fugue analysis is a challenging problem. We propose an al- gorithm that detects subjects and counter-subjects in a symbolic score where all the voices are separated, determining the precise ends and the occurrence positions of these patterns. The algorithm is based on a di- atonic similarity between pitch intervals combined with a strict length matching for all notes, except for the first and the last one. On the 24 fugues of the first book of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, the algorithm predicts 66% of the subjects with a musically relevant end, and finally retrieves 85% of the subject occurrences, with almost no false positive. Keywords: symbolic music analysis, contrapuntal music, fugue analy- sis, repeating patterns 1 Introduction Contrapuntal music is a polyphonic music where each individual line bears inter- est in its own. Bach fugues are a particularly consistent model of contrapuntal music. The fugues of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier are composed of two to five voices, appearing successively, each of these voices sharing the same initial melodic material: a subject and, in most cases, a counter-subject. These pat- terns, played completely during the exposition, are then repeated all along the piece, either in their initial form or more often altered or transposed, building a complex harmonic network. To analyze symbolic