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

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Issues : Cautionary accidentals

b. 3-4

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

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In bar 3 all sources feature a completely unjustified  (cautionary?) to the first G note. In FC a respective  was also added in bar 4 (in pencil). We do not consider this accidental to be part of FC, since it was added by the reviser of GE. In addition to GE, the latter was also added in EE. In the main text we omit both accidentals.

The sharp in bar 3 must have been entered into [A] by Chopin. According to us, it could be an echo of the initial notation of bars 1-2, in which the top R.H. minim was written down as g1.

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

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Enharmonic corrections

b. 67

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

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The cautionary natural before e1 is to be found only in FC (→GE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 130-132

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

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In this chromatic progression, the notation of the sources does not contain any mistakes, and Chopin took care of a few cautionary accidentals – to g1-b1 at the beginning of bar 130, to g1 in bar 131 and to d1-f1 in bar 132. In the main text we also add naturals to e in bar 130 and to B and a in bar 132. The latter were also added by GE (a  to B) and EE (a  to a).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Source & stylistic information

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals