FC
Main text
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESf - Schiffmacher copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
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  b. 101-102

Tied a2 in bar 101-102 in A (→FC,FEEE) & GE3

No tied a2 in GE1

Tied a2 in bar 101 in GE2

Tied a2 in bar 101-102 – notation suggested by the editors

The version of GE1, which may seem to be a result of a serious misunderstanding or mistake, is probably a clumsy attempt at correcting the mistakes and inaccuracies of the notation of FC. For the copyist put a superfluous dot extending the d3 minim in the chord at the beginning of bar 101, whereas in the 1st chord in bar 102 he wrote the note head of the middle a2 in such a way that it is practically imperceptible (the fact that the note was to be there is proven by the extending dot). The above defects do not hamper the correct interpretation of the text if one is aware of A; however, having only FC at his disposal, the engraver of GE1 considered both dots in b. 101 as well as the one in b. 102, which seems to concern a non-existent note, to be mistakes. Eventually, he omitted the aimless (under these circumstances) curved line running from the a2 minim in b. 101 and leading nowhere. The reviser of GE2 also did not guess the correct text; it appears only just in GE3.
In the main text we change the original, one-part notation of the chord in bar 101 to a clearer, two-part one.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Different values of chord components, GE revisions, Errors of FC

notation: Rhythm

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