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Issues : Inaccuracies in FC

b. 246

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

 
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In FC3 f2 crotchet in RH is not dotted.

Also both in A and GE1 there is no  on this note.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Errors of A , Inaccuracies in FC

b. 251

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

 
 
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In FC3 e2 crotchet is not dotted in RH. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FC

b. 252-259

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

 
 
 
 
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In all the sources accents in bars 252-259 are completely arbitrary. In A there are only two accents in b. 252 are marked along with the one on the first beat of b. 253. In GE there are no accents marked, while in the other sources they are missing from b. 253 only.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FC

b. 252-253

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

 
 
 
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In all the sources except A the slur over the phrase ends in b. 251. In GE the same slur extends over to the first note of b. 252. The first beat of b. 252 is covered by a separate slur in these sources.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Inaccuracies in FC

b. 310-333

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

6 longer, 6 shorter slurs in A

2 longer, 9 shorter slurs in FC

10 longer slurs in FE

3 longer, 9 shorter slurs in GE1

9 longer slurs in EE

12 shorter slurs in GE2 (→GE3)

12 longer slurs suggested by the editors
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The slurs over the motifs of the bottom voice in A are of different length: they encompass the quavers only or reach the minim in the next bar. On many occasions, it is difficult or even impossible to say conclusively which of the slurs Chopin meant. Since there is no visible reason for those actually identical motifs to have different slurs, in the main text we unify them, assuming the six-note slurs to be more frequent in A. None of the remaining sources reproduced Chopin's notation accurately; the differences in FC and FE are exclusively of an accidental nature, whereas GE1, EE and GE2 (→GE3) also introduced arbitrary changes, ordering the notation.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions , Errors of FC , Inaccuracies in FC