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Manuscript Annotations

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2

animato

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This is a typical instance of David employing successive 4th fingers to enable expressive portamento.

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3

Here David produces portamento with successive 2nd fingers.

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He evidently expected the a''' to be played as a harmonic on the A string.

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A corrective natural sign.

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These are the signs for a sharp attack with the point of the bow, described in his Violinschule.

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6

He changed his mind about playing the whole passage on the G string, beginning on the D string and going to the G string with the harmonic in the 2nd bar.

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6

These signs evidently indicate vibrato. The wavy line over 6 notes is unusual and presumably indicates vibrato on all the longer notes; it is undoubtedly significant that it ends before the 'weaker' f#' with which the phrase nends.

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6

Here again vibrato on each of the longer notes seems to be implied.

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This and the following lines also indicate that vibrato is confined to the stronger appoggiatura.

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7

Here David evidently intended that these notes should be three separately bowed e'''s.

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The purpose of this NB is unclear.

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9

This was evidently written before the pieces were bound into a single volume, since it has been cropped during binding. It is evidently meant to replace the figurations on the 5th stave down.

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