Verbal indications
b. 1
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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In the main text we give the title and dedication in accordance with the title page of the entire opus in FC and FE. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Dedications , GE revisions |
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b. 1
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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The values of the metronome tempo, both 120 in A and 160 in FC, were written with Chopin's hand, it was most probably also the case in the manuscript base text to EE. Therefore, in the main text we give 160, present in two authentic sources. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors of A , Metronome tempos |
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b. 1
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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According to us, placing in A only at the beginning of bar 1 is an example of Chopin's using a manner of putting the indications inside, and not at the beginning of, the area of their validity, which is not used at all today. It is also possible that Chopin feared the suggestion that the indication refers only to the L.H., yet this risk also seems to be negligible in our times. In FC Fontana put the sign slightly earlier, so that in GE1 it was printed at the very beginning of the piece. The interpretation was reviewed in GE2 (→GE3). category imprint: Differences between sources issues: GE revisions , Inaccuracies in FC , Centrally placed marks |
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b. 9-11
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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The legato and staccato indications, in A written both in bar 9 and two bars later, were deleted in the second place by Chopin in FC (→GE); they are also absent in EE. In turn, in FE staccato was reproduced in both bars, yet both legato indications were omitted. It can be an oversight of the engraver or Chopin's correction – the legato articulation is indicated by slurs. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Authentic corrections of FC |
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b. 31
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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It is hard to state whether in EE is an authentic indication. Anyways, in the remaining sources seems to be more adequate, if only due to analogy with bar 17. category imprint: Differences between sources |