On the basis of GC and FE it is hard to imagine what range and meaning the slur under the bottom voice of the R.H. is supposed to have. The sign in GC seems to be an articulation motivic slur starting under e
1, however, it is unknown which note it is supposed to reach – d
1, e1, or maybe even f1 in bar 159. In FE (→EE) the slur took the form of a tie sustaining the d1 minim. In the main text we give the version of the base source, i.e. FE. Two different ways of interpretation of the slur of GC may be considered to be variants.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Inaccuracies in GC
notation: Slurs