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subject| Traditionally, one of the two main parts of a sentence, the other being the predicate. In grammar, the noun or pronoun that carries out the action of the verb in a sentence, as in ‘The dog chased the cat’. The subject also controls the form and number of the verb. |
| Subjects are most difficult to identify when they are implied, as in ‘Save me!’, where the subject is ‘you’. |
subject| In music, a principal melody of a work, similar to a theme. The term is used specifically to describe the main musical ideas of a sonata-form movement, as in first and second subjects. It is also used to describe the opening melody of a fugue, which appears in imitation in all the voices. A fugue has only one subject, except in double and triple fugues. |
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