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Issues : Unclear hairpins in A

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b. 155

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

 in A

in GC (→GE)

in FE

in EE

Long accent suggested by the editors
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According to us, beginning the  mark clearly before the minim and placing it on its stem means that it is a long accent, written proportionally to the unexpected length of the note. This is the interpretation we give in the main text. The versions of the remaining sources are attempts at an explicit reproduction of form and meaning of the mark by the copyist and the engravers. However, none of them took into account both elements of notation indicated above, and the size of the mark forced them to interpret it as a  hairpin. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Unclear hairpins in A

b. 241

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

 & > in A

 &  in GE (→FE)

 in EE

 & > suggested by the editors
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The  hairpin has arms of different length in A; however, one may safely assume that it reaches the 4th quaver in the bar. Therefore, the clearly shorter sign in GE (→FE→EE) is certainly inaccurate. What is more, the accent, falling in A on the 5th quaver in the L.H., was assigned to the R.H., extended and moved to the end of the 1st half of the bar (cf. bar 243). In the version of FE, the sign already looks like a second accent (under the note) on the 7th semiquaver in the R.H., which probably made the reviser of EE omit it.

In the main text we reproduce the signs of A, yet we lead  to the end of the 1st half of the bar, in accordance with the musical sense and the notation of analogous bars 243 and 245. 

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

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , Unclear hairpins in A , Inaccuracies in A