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12 accents in EE |
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13 accents in GC |
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12 accents in GE |
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11 accents in FE |
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Our suggestion (13 accents) |
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Our alternative suggestion (11 accents) |
In bars 74-89 the minims of the highest voice are furnished with accents (with the exception of bar 75 in the version with the sustained c
2). However, there are differences related both to the type of accents used (short ones in EE and GC or long ones in FE) and their placement within the eight-bar phrases:
EE 
The accent in bar of that version is most probably erroneous; the absence of the accent in bar 89 is also an error.
GC 
We give that version, with the consistent arrangement of the accents in both phrases, as our main version. It was also reproduced in GE, with a single error (no accent in bar 83). It is difficult to determine whether the accents used are short ones (they are longer in bars 91-96 & 99-102) or long ones (accents in bars 106 and 139 are shorter).
What seems dubious in that version is the arrangement of accents in bars 74-75 and in the endings of eight-bar sections (bars 80-81 and 88-89). A comparison with similar bars 416-432 suggests that the manuscript used as the base text for FE could differ from GC only in that it had no accent in bar 81 (probably by mistake) and used accents of different type, therefore we offer such a version as well. In our opinion, an alternative interpretation of accent placement is also possible, in which the accent in bar 80 is a misplaced accent from bar 81, and bars 88-89 are written correctly. This leads to the following version:
category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, Errors in FE, Errors in EE, Errors in GE
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
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