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Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

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Issues : Long accents

b. 30-31

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

Long accents in A

Short accents in GE (→FE→EE)
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The musical sense obliges us to consider three accents at the beginning of subsequent halves of bars in A to be signs of one type. Since the first and third are undoubtedly long, we interpret the third, smaller sign, to be also long (cf. short accents in bars 32-33). In the editions all three signs were reproduced as short.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

b. 35

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

Long accent in A

No mark in GE1 (→FE→EE)

Short accent in GE2
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Omission of the accent in GE1 (→FE→EE) is certainly a mistake. The reviser of GE2 restored the sign (in the form of a short accent).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 36

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

Long accent in A

Short accent in GE1

No mark in FE (→EE)

Short accent in GE2
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The sign of an accent in GE1 is doubly inaccurate: short and placed after the chord it concerns in the very legible notation of A. Overlooked in FE (→EE), it was moved to the right place in GE2 (without changes in shape).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Errors in FE , Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions

b. 38

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

Long accent in A (probable reading)

Short accent in GE, #→FE→EE)
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The accent in A is only slightly longer than the adjacent ones, hence it is not entirely certain whether Chopin meant a long accent here.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in A

b. 39

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

Long accent in A

Short accent in GE (→FE→EE)
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The accent in A is clearly bigger than the adjacent ones, hence we give it in the main text as long. The short accent in the editions is most probably a typical inaccuracy of GE (→FE→EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE