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The incorrect title (Bach has "Gavotte en Rondeau") is taken over from David's 1843 complete edition of the Sonatas and Partitas.

Another instance (and in the following bar, too) where Molique follows David's incorrect slurs. Bach's slurs are typically down bows starting at the beginning of the bar and moving down towards the point of the bow. This version, by contrast, makes it easier to move up to the heel as the forte approaches.

Bach's slur includes the first note in the bar. In this movement, the slurs in the "original" version given in David's edition are often inconsistent with those in Bach's autograph: David takes many of them over, and Molique follows him.

This elegant bowing, taken from David, is designed to allow the player to move back to the middle of the bow and to make it easy to use more bow during the crescendo. The next piano phrase can then be played neatly near the point

The single instance of a fingering in Bach's m.s. The double stop is fingered 1/3, to get the hand ready to play the following notes in the second position. Molique follows David's fingering, showing that he share his preference, typical of nineteenth-century violinists, for the odd-numbered positions, and their greater readiness to change position frequently.

In this episode, Molique, with one exception (noted), follows David's bowings, designed to enhance the music's expressive contour. Bach is more consevative, confining himself to slurring the first 3 notes in most bars, but this is not clearly written in the m.s. forming the basis of David's edition.

In the David edition, there are dots under this slur.

These slurs are found in the original m.s.

We can imagine Molique, too, revelling in the ebullient contrasts introduced into this episode by David; the FF/P alternation highlighted by the repeated down bows.