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b. 185

composition: Op. 50 No. 3, Mazurka in C♯ minor

No mark in AI & GE

Staccato dot in AF (→FE→EE)
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We do not include the staccato dot in the main text, featured in AF (→FE→EE), since the principal source (GE) contains two other indications instead, i.e.  and an accent – see the adjacent note. However, it does not have to mean that Chopin in fact considered these indications separately, since we cannot rule out an oversight in [AG] or GE. Due to this reason, according to us, the dot can be regarded as complementing the indications of GE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

b. 185

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

in A (→FE→EE)

No sign in FC (→GE)
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The lack of a  hairpin in FC (→GE) is most probably a copyist's oversight. Likewise in the analogous b. 636.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC

b. 185

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

at end of bar in sources

 under b, our alternative suggestion
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The  asterisk having been removed at the end of the bar in A and added under b, as in b. 180-181, is a reason for the suggested alternative version of pedalling. As Chopin considered a whole-bar pedal unsuitable for b. 184, there is no visible reason to apply it in b. 185, which is almost identical. Actually, there is a number of situations in which Chopin omits an intended correction in one of a few places, cf., e.g. the Etude in E, Op. 10 No. 3, b. 33, Prelude in B, Op. 28 No. 21, b. 36 or the Concerto in E minor, Op. 11, I mov., b. 50-51.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Editorial revisions

issues: Omitted correction of an analogous place

b. 186-188

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

 
 
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In GE there are no slurs connecting quavers and crotchets in the RH part on the first and second beat of b. 187 and the first beat of b. 188.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE

b. 186

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Last semiquaver e1-e2 in A (→FE,EE) & GE3

f1-f2 in GC (→GE1→GE2)
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The version in GC (→GE1→GE2) is undoubtedly mistaken – cf. the previous bar. The error was corrected only in GE3.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC