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Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

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Issues : Long accents

b. 7

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

Long accent in AI & A

Short accent in FE (→GE,EE)
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The accent in the 1st half of the bar may be interpreted as long or short in A. A clearly longer sign is written also in AI. On the other hand, a comparison with analogous accents in the 2nd half of this bar and in bars 1-2 suggests the second possibility and this is how the sign was understood in FE (→GE,EE). According to us, the context, particularly the harmonic one, can justify distinguishing this note with a longer accent.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness

issues: Long accents

b. 8-9

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

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The long accent over the d1-b1 sixth in bar 8 and the  hairpins in bar 9 were added by Chopin in a proofreading of FE (→GE,EE). The composer replaced with them the previous  sign in bar 8, written in A.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 20

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

Long accent in A

Short accent in FE (→GE,EE)
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The clear long accent, visible in A, was reproduced in FE (→GE,EE) as short. See the note below.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

b. 21

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

Long accent in A

Short accent in FE (→GE,EE)
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According to us, the accent written in A is to be interpreted as long. The sign in FE, despite that it recreates the notation of A quite accurately, due to the more constricted notation, is rather a short accent and this is how it was understood in GE and EE. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

b. 25

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

Long accent in A

 in FE (→GE1,EE)

 in GE2 (→GE3→GE4→GE5)
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It is the longest out of three evident long accents written in A in bars 21, 25 and 27. In FE (→GE1,EE) it was reproduced as three-semiquaver-long  hairpins. In subsequent GE, the sign was extended in order to cover the entire length of the semiquaver beam (such kind of adjustments of slurs and hairpins to regular rhythmic groups was a characteristic manner of German engravers, both Kistner and Breitkopf and Härtel). Cf. bar 27.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents