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Issues : Inaccurate slurs in A

b. 1-12

composition: Op. 24 No. 3, Mazurka in A♭ major

Slur in AI

More probable reading of slurs in A

Less probable reading of slurs in A (→GE→FE→EE)
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The first slur of the Mazurka begins on a bar-line in A, which allows a twofold interpretation. The slur at the end of bar 12 (1a volta) also may be read as encompassing only two quavers or longer. 

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

b. 1-5

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

No slurs in CLI & FE (→GE,EE) 

Slurs in Ap
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The slurs in Ap seem to be fragmented and their task is probably only to remind of the legato articulation. Anyway, Chopin did not determine the phrasing here in the version prepared for printing.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

b. 1-4

composition: Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor

Four slurs in A

Two slurs in FE (→EE2)

Two slurs in GE1

Three slurs in GE2 (→GE3)

Three slurs in GE4 (→GE5)

Three slurs in EE3 (→EE4)
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Each of four slurs in the L.H. written in A embraces the entire bar, despite the fact that due to the inconvenient graphic layout, the notation is not always precise. In FE (→EE2) only two out of them were recreated, in bars 2-3. Similarly in GE1, in which the slur in bar 3 is led only to the penultimate note, a (this inaccuracy was corrected only in GE4 and GE5). In later GE and EE a slur was added in bar 1. In the main text we give all slurs of A, as an intentional omission of some of them in FE is highly unlikely. Cf. bars 9-10.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions

b. 1

composition: Op. 10 No 7, Etude in C major

Slur from g in A (→FE→GE,EE)

Our suggestion
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According to us, separating the accented a note from the following quavers is unnatural in terms of both articulation and phrasing. It is confirmed by the slurring of similar bars 2, 5-6, 34-35 and 38-39 – a and g are combined with a slur in five out of seven places in A and in all seven in FE. Therefore, in the main text we suggest a slur beginning already from the 3rd quaver in the bar.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

b. 1-2

composition: Op. 10 No 4, Etude in C♯ minor

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In AI the slur does not embrace two entire bars, yet its shape and melodic context suggest that Chopin most probably had in mind such slur like in FE (→GE,EE).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A