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Issues : Abbreviated notation of A

b. 62

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In A (→GC) the part of the L.H. was written in an abbreviated form as a repetition of bar 61, which generated a number of misunderstandings in first editions – cf. adjacent notes.

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issues: Abbreviated notation of A

b. 62-72

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

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In AI the bars are marked as repetition of the respective fragment from the beginning of the Etude. The indication included between bars 61 and 73 – Da capo al segno Mechetti pedal sign  e poi – interpreted literally, requires repetition of almost the entire 1st part of the piece, including bars 1-19. It means that Chopin either decided to shorten the repetition of the theme only while writing A or did not take enough care of a precise indication of the range of repetition, obvious to him, in the draft AI, written hastily. In mUltimate Chopin we adopt – partly due to practical reasons – the second assumption. Taking into account the fact that bars 9-13 are written more precisely in AI than bars 1-5, we assume that the repetition includes the concise section in bars 9-19 (certainly without g1 at the beginning).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Source & stylistic information

issues: Abbreviated notation of A

b. 62

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

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In A1 the L.H. part is marked in an abridged manner – with the •/• mark – as a repetition of the preceding bar.

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issues: Abbreviated notation of A

b. 65-84

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt III

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Amar, the autograph of a fragment of the middle section of Marche, includes only bars 31-38, hence it is considered in the notes only in these bars.

In [A] (→GC) the recapitulation – except for the last bar – is marked in an abbreviated manner as repetition of the first section.

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issues: Abbreviated notation of A , Incomplete sources

b. 66-89

composition: Op. 28 No. 17, Prelude in A♭ major

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As before, in the manuscripts and in GE various abbreviations of notation were often used.
In A (→FC→GE) Chopin wrote down the majority of the groups of repeated quavers as dotted crotchets or minims provided with quaver tremolos. Such a notation is to be found in A (→FC) in b. 66 (L.H. only), 67-70, 72, 74 (L.H. only), 75-83 and in the L.H. only in b. 85 and 88-89. In addition, in FC there is a tremolo in b. 71. In GE all tremolos of FC were repeated except b. 88-89. Apart from tremolos, Chopin used in A (→FC) also •/• signs to mark b. 87 as a repetition of the previous one.
FCI used only / signs to mark repeating 3-quaver groups. It can be seen in b. 66, 74 and 89 and in the L.H. only in b. 72, 80 and 88. •/• signs were used to mark b. 85 and 87.

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issues: Abbreviated notation of A