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Info updated: 2014-02-18

Accidentals on transcriptions

Not always do early prints and manuscripts show all the necessary accidentals.

In our edition, these implied accidentals are notated in small type by the modern editor, so performers can immediately tell the original accidentals from the editorial ones.

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Furthermore, passages in which accidentals are obviously implied to be carried across a bar line, such as this one:

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are transcribed in this way:

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