Montéclair Passepied
Note:  Meaning of ?—misprint.  Again the speed is not a daunting factor in retaking.  Baffling contradiction between top and bottom bowings:  seem to be both in 2-measure groupings but  opposite within measures.  Montéclair labels hemiola in 4th last measure but in 2nd and 3rd last implies it in bottom but contradicts it in top.  Why?

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Corrette, Méthode théorique et pratique for cello, Paris, 1741.  Passepied
Note:  T = down bow (tirez); P = up bow (poussez). Why retake on 2nd measure?  Everything else as it comes.  Like his minuets for violins, establishes rule of down-bow then forgets about it.  M.2 retake like Montéclair.

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