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  b. 20

Arpeggio sign on 3rd beat in FC (→GE)

No sign in FE (→EE)

It is difficult to say whether Chopin wanted the last chord in this bar to be performed arpeggio or not. Both in this bar and in analogous bar 116 only one of the authentic sources contains an arpeggio mark; however, it is a different source in each of these places – in this case it is present in FC, whereas in the other – in FE. In either case, it is both the absence of the mark (oversight) and its presence (mistake 'out of momentum') that could be a mistake. In the main text we suggest a version without an arpeggio, since in a few other places in the Mazurka it seems that in Chopin's eyes the presence of an arpeggio depended on the chord span (cf., e.g. bars 21-28, arpeggios only to the tenth chords, or bars 70-72, arpeggio only to the less convenient tenth chord on white keys).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE, Errors of FC

notation: Ornaments

Missing markers on sources: FC, FE1, FED, FES, GE1, GE2, EE1