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Issues : Dotted or even rhythm

b. 71

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

Crotchets in As & AI

Dotted rhythm in A (→FE→GE,EE)
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Replacing even values with a dotted rhythm is one of the most frequently encountered rhythmic diversifications in Chopin's music. All notes in the R.H. are placed in A exactly above the crotchets in the L.H., which may mean that Chopin introduced this diversification already after having written the earlier version, as a correction (similarly, in bar 77).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Dotted or even rhythm

b. 72

composition: Op. 63 No. 1, Mazurka in B major

Quaver g in AI

Semiquaver b in FE (→EE,GE1→GE2)

Semiquaver g in GE3
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The g note present in AI and in all analogous bars 4, 12 and 80 and in bars 2, 10, 70 and 78 proves that we are most probably dealing with a Terzverschreibung in FE. The b note featured in this edition does not raise any doubts in terms of harmony – B or b notes are present in chords on the 2nd beat of the bar in the majority of analogous bars – as a result of which they were repeated in almost all subsequent editions. The exception is GE3, in which – most probably on the basis of a comparison with analogous bars – g was introduced, and this is the version we adopt to the main text.
The AI quaver having been replaced by a semiquaver in the published version – see bar 70.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Terzverschreibung error , GE revisions , Dotted or even rhythm

b. 74

composition: Op. 63 No. 1, Mazurka in B major

Semiquaver d in AI

Quaver d in FE (→GE,EE)
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Unlike in bar 70 and 72, in this case AI has a version with a rest and a semiquaver, while FE (→GE,EE) – a quaver.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Dotted or even rhythm

b. 78

composition: Op. 50 No. 1, Mazurka in G major

Dotted rhythm in A1 (→FE→EE)

Quavers in GE
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The quavers in the L.H. top voice might be a mistake of GE, since due to the parallel movement, the voices are not independent. In the entire Mazurka a similar combination of L.H. quavers with R.H. dotted rhythm appears only twice, in b. 47 and 54. In both cases the voices co-create the polyphonising texture and are clearly independent.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , Dotted or even rhythm

b. 81

composition: Op. 63 No. 1, Mazurka in B major

c2-e2 semiquaver in AI

c2-e2 quaver in FE (→GE,EE)
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Dotted or even rhythm