Your score gave another answer than expected by me, yet I fully agree with your 
footnote. If an embellishment had been wanted, it very likely would have been 
marked in the oboes voiced in unisono with the violins.

Klaus


>________________________________
>From: Kim Patrick Clow <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2011 12:08 AM
>Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. 18th century notation question
>
>Here is the first page of my (very  much a work in progress score):
>
>http://i.imgur.com/zuEQR.png
>
>Thanks Klaus!
>
>On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre <
>[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have tried establishing scores from old, that is pre-1900, band parts
>> made available in scans by the US-LOC. Also there inconsistency is a
>> problem. However comparative reading of parts often is helpful.
>>
>> Maybe not very scholarly, but just down to earth practical, I would like to
>> know the articulations in the other parts for the two beats in question. My
>> immediate suspicion is that the harmony changes between them, or that the
>> same chord is redistributed in a way leaving only this part repeating the
>> same note. I might guess that the moving parts have these two beats
>> slurred.
>>
>> Klaus
>>
>>
>>
>> >________________________________
>> >From: Kim Patrick Clow <[email protected]>
>> >To: [email protected]
>> >Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 11:26 PM
>> >Subject: Re: [Finale] O.T. 18th century notation question
>> >
>> >Thanks for all the help everyone.
>> >
>> >I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but Peter Brown's thematic
>> >index has this symbol as tied notes with staccato markings above the
>> notes.
>> >
>> >I'm working on a source from Florence, Italy, and there are only two
>> others
>> >(one is in Vienna, and another in the Czech Republic). Maybe the other
>> >sources are more clear.
>> >
>> >But I showed the screen shot to Dr. Paul Bryan (editor of the Wanhal
>> >thematic index) and he said that the Florence source was in a Vienna
>> >copyist's handwriting).
>> >
>> >And on a side note: I can't tell you how frustrating the parts are-- the
>> >inconsistencies on everything- dynamic marks, articulations. I don't know
>> >how the musicians
>> >performed the music in really acceptable manner, but I know, performance
>> >standards were much much different back then.
>> >
>> >Thanks again!
>> >
>> >Kim
>> >
>> >
>> >
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