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GC - Gutmann's copy

EE - English edition

EE1 - First English edition

FE - French edition

FE1 - First French edition

FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1

FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy

FES - Stirling copy

GE - German edition

GE1 - First German edition

GE2 - Second German edition

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b. 601

		Long accent in EE, contextual interpretation of GC (→GE) & FE
		GC (→GE2), literal reading
		FE, literal reading
		No sign in GE1

Regradless of the differences in length and placement, the marks in all the sources (except GE1, where there is no mark) clearly fall on the minim on the second beat of the bar, which allows for seeing a long accent here - more or less precisely copied.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor