Issues : Inaccuracies in A
b. 363-364
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composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt III
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Four necessary flats lowering g to g (in different octaves) are missing in A: Chopin wrote signs only at the beginning of the bars, in the L.H. in bar 363 and in the R.H. in bar 364. In GE1 (→FE1→EE1→EE2) a was added before the bass G in bar 365, but it is only GE2 and EE3 that include the fully correct notation. category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Inaccuracies in A |
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b. 363-366
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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As before (bars 349-352), in A Chopin writes accidentals only to the top notes of the octaves (in the R.H. and in the L.H.). He then considers these accidentals to be valid throughout an entire bar in all octaves of a given stave. All the omitted accidentals – 27 flats to d and g and 2 naturals to e – were already added in GE1 and were repeated in the remaining editions. category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Inaccuracies in A |
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b. 367
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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The placement of the mark in A does not allow us to reproduce Chopin's intention unequivocally. Statistically speaking, Chopin would write a mark more often – especially in the case of low-placed bass notes – before the note it was supposed to concern than after such note, but his autographs include both situations. Therefore, we assume that in this case it is the pianistic context that is decisive – bass pedal notes belong to Chopin's favourite harmonic procedures, hence the doubled F1-F octave held with pedal seems to be more likely than the solution adopted by the editions. This conclusion is confirmed by the notation of AsI – the 'bass pedal' indication written under the semiquaver figuration undoubtedly refers to the reverberation of the initial octave, which in the orchestral part is sustained by the f note, played in bars 367-368 by the bassoon, while in bars 369-370 by the French horn. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: GE revisions , Inaccuracies in A |
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b. 409-419
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composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt III
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In A, the slurs over each of the descending figures in the R.H. in bars 409, 410, 417 and 418 reach the c3-f3 fourth at the beginning of the next bar (the first of them, slightly shorter, is an exception, yet in this case Chopin certainly had a longer slur in mind, too, which is proved by the slur of the original crossed out notation of bars 409-411). In spite of this, in GE1 (→FE→EE) all four slurs end with the last quaver in these bars. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions , Inaccuracies in A |
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b. 413-421
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composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt III
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The wedge at the beginning of bar 413 was reproduced in GE as a dot. In FE (→EE) the sign was overlooked. No staccato mark in analogous bar 421 must be Chopin's oversight: it is the first bar on a new page of A, which was frequently related to various inaccuracies of notation. category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: Errors in FE , Inaccuracies in GE , Wedges , Inaccuracies in A |