Issues : Errors of FC
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b. 473-475
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composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor
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The additional category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: Errors in FE , GE revisions , Errors of FC |
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b. 476
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composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor
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It is difficult to indicate the reason for the omission of the accent both in FC (→GE) and FE (→EE). Chopin could have added it in A already after he completed FC, whereas the engraver of FE could have simply overlooked it. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in FE , Errors of FC |
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b. 495-515
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composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor
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In the entire fragment (until b. 515) the accents under the R.H. bottom voice minims are of different length; they are also ambiguous in terms of their shape. As a result, determining whether Chopin meant a long or a short accent in a given bar is very problematic. We assume that they are long accents, since:
Similarly to b. 311-333, the remaining sources do not contain traces of Chopinesque intervention in this regard. The differences in the size of the marks in FC are minimal, so we assume – in accordance with GE – that they are short accents. Fontana overlooked the marks in b. 505 and 507, which was corrected in GE2 (→GE3). In FE we determine the length of the accents by comparing them with the undoubtedly short accents in the L.H. It results in short accents only in b. 501, 503 and 505. It is uncertain whether those differences were intended by the engraver, since the use of longer or shorter marks is neither musically consistent nor corresponding to the differences in A. In EE all accents are short except for b. 515, where the mark is clearly bigger. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: Long accents , EE revisions , GE revisions , Errors of FC , Inaccuracies in FC |
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b. 495-503
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composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor
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Wherever the bass features the seventh of a dominant chord, Chopin provides it in A with a long accent (b. 495 and 503). The marks were overlooked by Fontana in FC (→GE1), whereas in FE (→EE) they were reproduced as short accents. Short accents were added in GE2 (→GE3), suspecting, correctly, inaccuracy of the notation of FC and GE1. A particular role of those notes is also emphasised by a slur combining each of them with the bass note in the next bar. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , Errors of FC |
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b. 504-507
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composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor
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Three out of four L.H. accents in these bars are longer in A than the others, undoubtedly short (although not as long as the one in b. 503). The remaining sources contain short accents only, while FC is missing the last one, whereas GE1 – the last two. As the version of A we give the literal interpretation, with three long accents. However, in the main text we adopt short accents, since Chopin, by means of placement of an accent, i.e. under or over the notes, indicated whether an accent refers to the crotchet (over, short accent) or to the minim (under, long accent), and the discussed accents are written over the notes. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: Long accents , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Errors of FC |
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