FE1
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A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English Edition
EE2 - Second impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 27

A   mark in A (→GE)

 An accent in FE (→EE)

It is not clear whether the mark entered in A on the 3rd beat of the bar should be understood as hairpins   or as a long accent. The same may be said about the mark in GE which was nonetheless reproduced in FE (→EE) as an accent, and on top of that a short one. The similarity of the mark in A to the neighbouring marks in bars 26 and 28 makes us consider it to be a hairpin mark . Taking into account that in this context the difference between a long accent and a diminuendo mark of similar length is very slight, both in graphic appearance and in meaning, we give up the alternative reading (with the long accent).

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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