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FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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The missing , clarifying that it is the c3 major second, and not the c3 augmented second, that should be used as the top mordent note, is probably an inaccuracy by Chopin, who only occasionally clarified the pitch of auxiliary notes in ornaments with an accidental. In spite of c3, played a moment ago, the default choice in a descending minor scale is a natural seventh, in this case c3 in the D minor scale. However, it does not mean that there are no exceptions to this rule, hence the literal interpretation of the text may be regarded as an acceptable variant, particularly since the use of augmented seconds in the melody of the two previous bars may mean that the composer wanted to achieve peculiar timbre of the minor version of this phrase with the help of those intervals.

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issues: Omission of current key accidentals

notation: Ornaments

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