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A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 19

Slur to end of bar in A, probable interpretation

Slur to bar 20 in A, possible interpretation (→FCGE, →FEEE)

The phrase marks of A between the lines are ambiguous – the ending of the phrase mark in b. 19 suggests that it should be continued, which is not confirmed by the beginning of the phrase mark in b. 20. At the same time, both in b. 19 and b. 20 the interpretation is unobvious – in b. 19 the phrase mark does not go beyond the bar line as far as it does the line above or below, while the phrase mark in b. 20 begins after the 1st note, but its flat shape suggests that it is a continuation of the previous one. Similar situations can be found between the lines in b. 12-13 and 21-22. However, they fall within the phrases, and the endings of the phrase marks in b. 12 and 21 are so suggestive that there are no doubts that they should be continued. As in the discussed place a new phrase begins (cf. the phrase mark in b. 5), we suggest two interpretations of A.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Source & stylistic information

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Uncertain slur continuation

notation: Slurs

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