Slurs
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b. 36
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composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor
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The authenticity of the small slur running from the grace note and visible in FE (→EE) seems questionable. Chopin would not write conventional small slurs combining grace notes with main notes. It is also unlikely that it could be a vertical slur meaning an arpeggio, since the very grace note repeats the preceding semiquaver. It could be an erroneously recreated tie to c2. category imprint: Differences between sources |
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b. 42
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composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor
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The missing slur in FE must be an oversight by the copyist or by the engraver. The slur was added by EE, most probably by analogy with previous motifs. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE |
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b. 43
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composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor
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The beginning of the A slur falls more or less on the middle of the 1st beat of the bar, yet it is uncertain with which note it is supposed to be combined. Counting horizontally, it is closer to the 2nd note, and this is how it was interpreted in GE. According to us, however, one should take into account the direct distance. In FE (→EE) the slur starts from the beginning of the bar, as was written by Chopin in analogous bar 54. Both versions can be considered equal, yet in the main text we reproduce the notation of the principal source, that is A. category imprint: Differences between sources |
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b. 44-58
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composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor
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In bar 44, 46, 55 and 57 we recreate the Chopinesque notation of slur endings used in A. They reach the end of the bar, which means that the rhythmic value of the last note should be observed to the end. This non-standard notation was not recreated by any of the sources – in GE 3 slurs were led to the crotchet in the next bar (bar 45, 47 and 58), while the remaining one, like all slurs in FE (→EE), reaches only the semibreve. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: GE revisions , FE revisions , Tenuto slurs |
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b. 45-59
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composition: Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor
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It is difficult to guess Chopin's intention concerning the beginnings of the slurs in bar 45, 47-50 and 58-59. In A they start over the 2nd, 3rd or 4th quaver in the bar (and in bar 58, which we discuss separately, even over the first one). However, there are no musical reasons to differentiate between them, hence in the main text we average them out, writing all of them from the 3rd quaver, which corresponds to the beginnings of characteristic motifs, starting from a fourth, in their basic form. According to us, the versions of the editions do not contain any authentic elements – they recreate the A notation as understood by the GE engraver and copyist and then, respectively, the engravers of FE (through [FC]) and of EE (on the basis of FE). category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , FE revisions |
