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Issues : Inaccuracies in GE

b. 567

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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A comma-like mark in GC, which here should be read as a wedge, was not - maybe by chance - included in GE. Neither EE nor FE have any mark in this place. 

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Wedges

b. 567

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

 in EE, GC & FE

GE
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The  mark was inaccurately placed in GE - a crotchet too early.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE

b. 589-590

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Long accent in A (→FC,FE)

Short accent in GE1 & EE

in GE2 (→GE3)

 suggested by the editors
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In accordance with the analysis of the Chopinesque  or  marks in this and analogous pairs of bars (see b. 6-7), in the main text we give an averaged, more or less one-bar  hairpin. According to us, all hairpins, regardless of their actual length, are to be interpreted as long accents.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies

b. 600-603

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Slur in EE, simplest interpretation

Slurs in GC

Slurs in FE, simplest interpretation

Possible interpretation of FE

GE
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Those obvious inaccuracies in the three editons obscure deciphering Chopin's intentions regarding slurring of the part. In the main text we present the slurs notated without clear faults in  GC. They represent possible articulationn of the chords progression. While interpreting the slur in # EE we assume that the error applies to b. 600 (half of the line spanning bars 598-600 has no slurs in EE). We retain the slurs in GE as despite the inaccurate copy of the basis (GC) they are formally correct. The FE slurs may be interpreted in a variety of ways, among others as distorted GC slurs or as the aforementioned.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , EE inaccuracies

b. 620

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

8 staccato dots in FE (→EE)

9 dots in GE
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The additional dot in GE seems to be a routine addition of the engraver, convinced of the mark having been overlooked in FE. On the other hand, such an oversight cannot be excluded. In the main text, we stick to the version of the principal source – FE, which is also supported by the fact that the articulation of the final demisemiquaver results from the rhythmic context and does not require specification.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE