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Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

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b. 61-62

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

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In the main text we add cautionary flats to d2 in bar 61 and to the d1-b1 sixth in bar 62. It was also GE that added accidentals to the sixth. The same in bars 69-70.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

b. 62

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

Staccato dot in FC (→GE)

No mark in FE (→EE)
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The easiest explanation for the missing staccato dot in FE (→EE) would be an oversight by the engraver – in the entire Mazurka a staccato mark on the 1st quaver in the bar appears in the vast majority of similar figures, constituting an element defining the characteristic dance gesture of the Mazurka.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

b. 63

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

No mark in sources

Staccato dot suggested by the editors
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In the main text we suggest adding a staccato dot at the beginning of the bar. In the three remaining places the quaver sixths, followed by a semiquaver rest, are provided with dots in at least one authentic source (FC and FE), which allows us to consider the absence of a dot in the discussed bar to be an oversight.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 68-69

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

f1 tied in FC (→GE)

f1 repeated in FE (→EE)
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The missing tie to f1 in FE (→EE) may be simply an oversight by the engraver. However, one cannot rule out that this version could be authentic or even later than the version with a tie, if Chopin removed it while proofreading FE. The reason for a possible correction could be a more exact rhythmic and melodic inner analogy between the phrases in bars 57-64 and 65-72 – in the former, both four-bar sections begin from tied sixths (bars 57 and 61), whereas in the latter – from a played note in the bottom voice (bars 65 and 69).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 69-70

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

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As in bars 61-62, in the main text we add cautionary flats to d2 in bar 69 and the d1-b1 sixth in bar 70. It was also GE that added accidentals to the sixth.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions