All three signs of this type in bars 38-39 look like short accents, yet only the one in the L.H. in bar 39 is clearly put under the note it concerns. The signs in the R.H. – here and in bar 39 – are placed after the note, which gives raise to doubts concerning their meaning. According to us, they can be interpreted as:
- short accents, taking into consideration the shape of the sign, yet not its typical position;
- long accents, treating the note they concern as an intentional beginning of a sign which combined with its written ending – under the 3rd (bar 38) or 2nd (bar 39) semiquaver of the upper voice – results in a long accent;
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hairpins, if we compare them with slightly longer signs in analogous bars.
In the main text we do not consider these ambiguous signs.
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins