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Issues : Rhythmic errors

b. 28

composition: Op. 25 No 10, Etude in B minor

Crotchet rest in GC (→GE), FE & EE

Minim rest suggested by the editors
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It does not seem that the fact of shortening this bar present in the sources – it includes only three crotchets – had any practical or expressive meaning, as it is compensated by the fermata over the final rest. Due to this fact, in the main text we suggest a minim for this rest, compatible with the time signature. Perhaps at an earlier stage of composing the Etude Chopin introduced here certain changes and did not check the rhythmic notation diligently.
The rhythmic values incompatible with the declared time signature appear in one of the autographs of the Nocturne in B major, Op. 62 No. 1, bar 67 – the bar with the 4/4 time signature is filled with a semibreve and minim.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Rhythmic errors

b. 31

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

FC3 (→FE→IE), EE, GE

A
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In A the last note of the LH part is not dotted. In the copies and  subsequent editions this omission was supplemented. Compare annotation in b. 4.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Rhythmic errors , Errors of A

b. 32

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

GE4

A, FC3, (→FE→IE), EE, GE1 (→GE2→GE3)
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In all sources except GE4 the crotchet beginning the second half of the bar in RH is not dotted. It may have resulted from inaccurate notation in A. Compare annotation in b. 4.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Rhythmic errors , Errors of A

b. 32

composition: Op. 63 No. 3, Mazurka in C# minor

Minim c1 in sources

Quaver & minim c1 suggested by the editors
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The simplified Chopinesque notation is formally erroneous – the c1 minim does not last to the end of this bar, hence it cannot be sustained to the next one. On the other hand, despite inaccuracies, the notation seems unequivocal, which is supported by, e.g. the absence of corrections in the editions. Chopin would often forgo rhythmic precision in favour of more malleable or readable notation. In the main text we suggest a specified version, which does not seem excessively complicated.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Rhythmic errors

b. 34

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

Octave in A

Chord in FE (→GE,EE) 
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The octave in A is the original version, changed by Chopin in a proofreading of FE (→GE,EE). In FE the correction was inaccurately performed – there are no dots extending the added notes, while the  (cautionary) was placed at the pitch of b2. The rhythmic error was corrected in GE and EE and the  was moved before a2 in GE1, yet removed in EE and subsequent GE,s. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Rhythmic errors , Authentic corrections of FE