Main text
Main text
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 55

Quavers in FC (→GE)

Quaver & semiquaver in FE (→EE) & GE2

In the main text we give the FC (→GE) version. Although in analogous bars 49, 51 and 53 the second note is a semiquaver, the g2 quaver does not seem to be a mistake – together with the e2 note (prolonged due to the fact that it was played before), it is the quaver that constitutes an augmented version of the dotted rhythm opening the motif (). This rhythmic extension also impacts the next bar, which opens with a minim, and not with a crotchet. The semiquaver in FE (→EE) could have resulted from the engraver having misunderstood [A]; the engraver, influenced by the notation of bars 49, 51 and 53, considered the missing semiquaver beam to be a mistake.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE, Dotted or even rhythm

notation: Rhythm

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