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Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

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Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

b. 116

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

in FC

No sign in FE (→EE)

in GE
..

The  hairpin was added by Chopin to FC. In GE the mark was slightly shortened, adjusting it to the quintuplet beam. The hairpin of FC could be considered inaccurate, but a mark of similar range was most probably in [A] in bar 19, which seems to result from the comparison of the versions of FE and FC in that bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Authentic corrections of FC

b. 116

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

Long accent in FC (→GE)

No mark in FE (→EE)
..

The long accent was written into FC by Chopin, as in bar 20.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Authentic corrections of FC

b. 133-136

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

4 long accents in FC & FE

3 long accents in GE

4 short accents in EE
..

The four long accents were added to FC by Chopin. In GE1 the first one was overlooked; it is also absent in GE2, in which the adjacent  was removed too. It may mean that there was an attempt to add an accent, which required  to be moved; however, the correction remained unfinished. As accents are also in FE, Chopin most probable wrote them there while proofreading this edition. Reducing marks to the form of common, short accents is frequent in EE and other first editions of Chopin's works.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Errors in GE , EE inaccuracies