mUltimate Chopin

Op. 24 No. 3, Mazurka in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Select: 
Category
All
Graphic ambiguousness
Interpretations within context
Differences between sources
Editorial revisions
Corrections & alterations
Source & stylistic information
Verbal indications
All
Pitch
Rhythm
Slurs
Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
Verbal indications
Pedalling
Fingering
Ornaments
Shorthand & other
Importance
All
Important
Main
Undo Clear

Verbal indications

b. 1

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

Tempo marking in AI

A (→GE→FE→EE)
..

While preparing the Mazurka for print Chopin revised and precised the initial performance indications in A (→GE→FE→EE): he described the tempo differently than in AI, and added the metronome mark and con anima.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Changes of tempo markings

b. 1

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

The dedication in AI

The title and dedication in A (→GE1)

FE and GE2

EE
..

AI is not titled, and the dedication written there differs from the later one that Chopin wrote for the entire opus in A (→GE→FE→EE). The replacement of 4 Mazurkas with Quatre Mazurkas in FE and GE2 does not change the content of the authentic title from A (→GE1). However, the addition to the title in EE is definitely inauthentic; the English editor used to add the expression Souvenir de la Pologne to each consecutive opus of Chopin's mazurkas.

 

 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE inaccuracies

b. 6-7

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

No in AI

in A (literal reading) and GE1 (→FE→EE)

in A (contextual interpretation) and GE2
..

In A (→GE1→FE→EE),  is written at the beginning of bar 7. In A this bar is the first in a new line, and the mark is placed distinctly before the first notes. Account taken of the phrasing, such a placement of the mark suggests it being effective from the last quaver of bar 6. This interpretation is confirmed by the notation of A in the analogous bar 30. Therefore we give in bar 6 in the main text, as already did GE2.

In AI is absent from bar 6-7 altogether.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

b. 10-11

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

No performance marking in AI

dolce in A, literal reading

Contextual interpretation of A and GE (→FE→EE)
..

AI does not have the term dolce. Chopin added it in A (→GE→FE→EE) in bars 10 and 34.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

b. 13

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

Without  in AI, FE (→EE)

 in A (→GE)
..

 was most probably overlooked in FE (→EE). It is also absent from AI.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors in FE