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Manuscript Annotations

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1

This fingering indicates David's expectation that no vibrato would be used here.

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1

The absence of a 1 on d'' suggest that David envisaged a portamento here.

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1

A harmonic was almost certainly taken for granted here.

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3

It is unclear whether David envisaged two 2nd fingers here or assumed that the player would naturally change to a 3rd finger for the grace note. The former is distinctly possible in view of many other circumstances in which David clearly indicates the use of the same finger for rapid adjacent semitones.

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3

If David had not wanted a portamento here he could easily have taken the c''' with the extended 4th finger.

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4

Fingerings clearly contrived to produce portamento down the A string (indicated by the small II beneath the b'').

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