Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
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b. 6-7
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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In A, the category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in A |
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b. 6
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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The long accent entered into A was quite accurately reproduced in FE; however, GE and EE considered it vague and reduced to a more typical form, i.e. a diminuendo hairpin in GE and a common short accent in EE. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE , EE inaccuracies |
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b. 8-16
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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In A, the 5 accents at the beginning of the R.H. quaver figures are of different length – the shortest are in b. 10 and 12, while the longest – in b. 14 and 16. However, all of them are provided with a slender shape, typical of long accents. As there is no reason to differentiate between the accents (and the last two are undoubtedly long), we interpret all of them as long; this is also the shape in which we give them in the main text. In FE, it is only the last accent that is clearly longer (in b. 16); in the remaining editions the marks were standardised as common short accents. The issue of distinguishing between those two types of accents, not always possible to unequivocally decide, is present throughout the entire Ballade and is also to be found in many other works by Chopin. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in A |
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b. 18-20
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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In A, a new page begins from b. 17, which could have been the reason Chopin overlooked the accents in b. 18 and 20. Due to the above, in the main text we suggest adding respective marks after b. 8, 10 and analog. Short accents modelled on the preceding bars were also added in EE; by contrast, in GE it was only the accent in b. 18 that was added. category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: EE revisions , GE revisions |
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b. 23
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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In FE (→GE), the staccato dots of the E category imprint: Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE |
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