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b. 9-10

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

A, GE

FC3 (→FE→IE), EE
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Missing bottom slur in FC3 (→FE→IE) and EE must be the copyist’s omission in [KF2].

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC

b. 9

composition: Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor

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In GE2 (→GE3) a cautionary  was added before c1.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 9-12

composition: Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor

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FES has pencil marks in every one of those bars, yet their meaning is difficult to decipher.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 9-10

composition: Op. 24 No. 4, Mazurka in B♭ minor

The slur A (interpretation in context)

The slur of GE (→FE→EE)
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When read literally, the slur of A  ends over the semiquaver f2. In our opinion, the phrasing aspect of that slur is an argument that points to its inaccurate notation. For our main text we assume the slur reaching the 2nd beat of bar 10, as Chopin clearly wrote two bars earlier. In GE (→FE→EE) the slur ends even earlier, which is surely not implied by the notation of A.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

b. 9-10

composition: Op. 24 No. 3, Mazurka in A♭ major

A longer slur in AI

Slur in AI without a "triplet" slur

Slurs in A, literal reading

Slurs in A (→GE2), contextual interpretation

GE1 (→FE→EE)
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The first slur, encompassing the triplet, is written inaccurately in A, patently shifted to the left. This resulted in its earlier beginnig in GE1 (→FE→EE). The correct interpretation of the sign, in keeping with the analogous bars 5-6 as well as 29-30 and 33-34, was introduced in GE2.

AI has different slurs here, as in bars 5-6. We propose the longer one as an alternative to the slurring in A.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A