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Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor

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Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

b. 281

composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor

Long accent over R.H. chord in A

Long accent under R.H. chord suggested by the editors

Short accent over R.H. chord in FE

2 short accents in GE & EE
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As in bar 277, in the main text we put the long accent placed in A over the R.H. chord between the staves, since it must concern both hands. This issue was also specified in GE and EE by adding another accent under the L.H. part. The fact that all the editions used short accents results from the absence of a defined category of long accent being a separate mark.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Long accents , EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions

b. 283-285

composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor

2  & long accent in A, literal reading

3  in GE

Short accent & 2  in FE

Long accent & 2  in EE

3 long accents suggested by the editors
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As in bar 110, 112 and 114, the  marks written in A, the first two of which are longer than typical long accents, are to be uniformly interpreted as long accents. This is supported by the A notation in analogous bars 116-118, in which the marks are clearly long accents. The versions of the editions resulted from the overlapping of interpretation inaccuracies and the attempts to assign the marks to one of the two categories – short accent or diminuendo hairpin.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , EE inaccuracies

b. 287-290

composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor

to b. 288 & 290 in A (→GE)

No signs in FE (→EE1)

in b. 287 & to b. 290 in EE2
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As in analogous bars 120-123, the  hairpins were almost certainly added to A after [FC] had been finished, which explains their absence in FE (→EE1). In EE2 the marks were added on the basis of GE1, yet the first was reproduced inaccurately, omitting its ending in bar 288.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 294

composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor

No mark in sources

Long accent suggested by the editors
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In the main text we suggest adding an accent over the syncopated e1 minim. The fact that this note should be accented is indicated by the accents over all the remaining syncopated notes in the first phrase of this theme. These marks were added to A after [FC] had been finished, while in the discussed bar Chopin was occupied with the issue of marking the new agogic concept of this final theme.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 296-301

composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor

Long accents in A

No marks in FE (→EE1)

Short accents in GE & EE2
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The four accents in these bars must have been added to A after [FC] had been finished, since it is difficult to assume that the copyist or the engraver could have overlooked all of them (also those in bar 302 and 304). The accents are clearly long, which, however, was reproduced neither in GE nor in EE2 (which was modelled after it).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE , Corrections in A