An example of how the subtonic serves as a secondary dominant to the mediant (in A minor: G is the dominant of C). From Bach's Chorale <i>Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig</i>, BWV 26. It is a reduction of the opening of the "Choral" or sixth movement.
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