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When writing the melody semiquavers without an octave sign, Chopin committed 14 mistakes in the entire variation, including 6 Terzverschreibung mistakes, which in this context consist in writing one ledger line too many. The list below shows the mistakes:

  • bar 6 – d4 instead of b3, d4 instead of c4, d4 instead of b3 (the first mistake was perhaps corrected by combining two ledger lines into one);
  • bar 7 – all 4 notes, c4 instead of a3, d4 instead of b3, f4 instead of c4, f4 instead of d4;
  • bar 9 – e4 instead of c4, e4 instead of f4;
  • bar 10 – d4 instead of c4;
  • bar 19 – b3 instead of c4;
  • bar 22 – b3 instead of c4;
  • bar 23 – b3 instead of a3, b3 instead of c4.

The letter names of notes written over the notes allow us to easily detect these mistakes.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: Terzverschreibung error, Errors in the number of ledger lines

notation: Pitch

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