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The three A accents raise doubts as to their position and type of accent. In the first two figures the marks are written under the 3rd R.H. bottom voice quaver, while in the third one – slightly earlier. The first and third ones look like short accents; the second one is slightly longer. According to us, it is highly unlikely that Chopin would have wanted the third quaver to be accented. We do not find a strictly analogous place in the entire IV mov. of the Sonata, yet there is a number of similar situations in which we are dealing with accents – in bars 80-83 and 136-137, there are 7 accents in total, and all concern the first quaver, while 6 of them are long accents. Therefore, we could be dealing with an extreme example of one of the ways of marking long accents – marks entered after a note (cf. I mov., bars 82-84). Taking into account the above, in the main text we suggest long accents in the discussed place.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions
issues: Long accents, GE revisions, Inaccuracies in A
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
