Issues : Bass register changes
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b. 10-14
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composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor
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Lack of the lower octave at the beginning of bar 10 in Ap may point to Chopin's hesitation, as the octave is both in CLI and FE (→GE,EE). The situation in bar 14, in which A1 was added by Chopin only in FEcor (→FE→GE,EE), suggests, however, that the bass note in the original Chopin's idea was supposed to be only A, while the lower octaves were added by Chopin only at the stage of reviewing the entire piece. Overseeing one or two places during this kind of serial corrections would often happen to Chopin (cf., e.g., the Etude in G category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Authentic corrections of FE , Bass register changes , Abbreviated octaves' notation |
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b. 11
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composition: Op. 63 No. 2, Mazurka in F minor
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As in bar 4, when preparing the Mazurka for printing, Chopin moved the bass an octave lower. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Bass register changes |
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b. 13-16
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composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor
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In these bars As does not include the part of the L.H. at all. It does not seem that it would indicate rests, however, any attempt to add it would have been mere speculation. In this case, we leave these bars without text, as both the version of AI and the accompaniment eventually adopted in the published version may serve as an addition. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Accompaniment changes , Incomplete sources , Bass register changes |
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b. 13-15
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composition: Op. 28 No. 7, Prelude in A major
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In A one can see corrections of the bass notes in b. 13 and 15 – Chopin moved them an octave lower. It is quite a frequent change used by Chopin in the stage of refining his pieces, cf., e.g. the Prelude No. 11 in B Major, b. 13, Lento con gran espressione WN37, b. 1 and 3 or the Etude in A category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Corrections in A , Deletions in A , Accompaniment changes , Bass register changes |
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b. 13
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composition: Op. 2, Variation IV, primitive version
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In AsI the version of the 1st figure in the bar is adjusted to the principal version of the ending of the previous bar. Although Chopin added the later, final version of the last figure in the ending of bar 12 already to AsI, he did not change anything in this case. Therefore, it allows us to link both versions of the ending of bar 12 to the AsI version of the discussed beginning of bar 13. According to us, the incompatible arrangement of the broken chords (particularly in the L.H.) rather excludes the possibility of combining the initial version of bar 12 with the new version of bar 13. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Accompaniment changes , Bass register changes |
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