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Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

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Issues : Errors in FE

b. 55

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

Quavers in FC (→GE)

Quaver & semiquaver in FE (→EE) & GE2
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In the main text we give the FC (→GE) version. Although in analogous bars 49, 51 and 53 the second note is a semiquaver, the g2 quaver does not seem to be a mistake – together with the e2 note (prolonged due to the fact that it was played before), it is the quaver that constitutes an augmented version of the dotted rhythm opening the motif (). This rhythmic extension also impacts the next bar, which opens with a minim, and not with a crotchet. The semiquaver in FE (→EE) could have resulted from the engraver having misunderstood [A]; the engraver, influenced by the notation of bars 49, 51 and 53, considered the missing semiquaver beam to be a mistake.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Dotted or even rhythm

b. 59

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

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In FE, in the top voice the double dotted crotchet is followed by a quaver. A comparison with analogous bar 63, and above all the FC (→GE) version, prove that the value of the last note is erroneous, since it is to be a semiquaver. An adequate correction was introduced in EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Rhythmic errors

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. 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. 79-94

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

12 staccato dots in FC

15 dots in FE

12 dots in GE1

13 dots in EE

16 dots in GE2
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We give the staccato dots for the bass notes after FE, which is more accurate in this respect than FC (we add the only dot omitted by FE in bar 93 after FC). In GE1 and EE the versions of FC and FE, respectively, were inaccurately reproduced. All dots were added only in GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in EE , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Errors of FC