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b. 218
Performing the crotchets in this bar staccato, as in the preceding bars, seems natural, hence highly likely. However, Chopin did not mark it, as one can imagine a change to the kind of articulation due to the possible continuation of crescendo; in the main text we leave this issue to the discretion of the performer.
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