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Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

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Issues : GE revisions

b. 35-51

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

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In GE cautionary sharps were added to the top notes of the dominant chords in bars 35, 37, 41, 43, 45, 49 and 51. There is a similar situation in subsequent, analogous bars.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 48

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

Quaver & quaver rest in FC (contextual interpretation→GE1) & FE (→EE)

Dotted quaver & semiquaver rest in GE2
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In FC the last L.H. f1 note is a dotted quaver, as a result of which the bar includes one semiquaver too many. The mistake was corrected in GE1 to a version that is also in FE (→EE); therefore, we give it in the main text. The GE2 version is an alternative revision of the erroneous FC notation, not devoid of logic with respect to the R.H. rhythm, but almost certainly inauthentic.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Rhythmic errors , Errors of FC

b. 53-61

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

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As before, in GE cautionary sharps were added to the top notes of the dominant chords in bars 53, 57, 59 and 61.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 54-62

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

No slurs in b. 57 & 62 in FC

No slurs in b. 54 & 56-57 in FE

No slur in b. 57 in EE

No slur in b. 62 in GE

All slurs complemented by the editors
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In bars 54, 56-57 and 62 particular sources do not include some of the slurs linking the semiquaver to the chord. A comparison of the versions suggests that both in FC and FE at least one slur present in [A] was left out. On the other hand, both in EE and GE the texts of the bases were revised by adding slurs, yet none of them did it consistently.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , GE revisions , Errors of FC

b. 63

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

2 short accents in FC & FE (→EE)

1 short accent in GE1

Long & short accent in GE2

2 long accents suggested by the editors
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We justify the long accents suggested in the main text by inaccuracies in the reproduction of such accents in other pieces by Chopin both by Fontana (cf., e.g. the Scherzo in B minor, Op. 31, bars 42-43) and by FE.
The absence of an accent in bar 63 must be a mistake by GE1, corrected in GE2 by adding a long accent.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Errors in GE , GE revisions