Versuch I Introduction

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Einleitung

Introduction

...zu Vermeidung aller Zweydeutigkeit...	To avoid any ambiguity...
In his Probestücke, which are thoroughly fingered, Bach has avoided using the numeral “3” to indicate triplets and the stroke mark to indicate staccato because these markings could be mistaken for fingering numbers (for example, a stroke could easily be misread as the numeral 1).

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