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Op. 24 No. 2, Mazurka in C major

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b. 83-84

composition: Op. 24 No. 2, Mazurka in C major

Slur end in A (→GE→FE→EE)

A less probable reading of A
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The moment when the slur ends is not quite clear in A. For the reasons discussed in the note to bars 79-80 we consider it much more probable that Chopin intended the slur to reach B on the 2nd beat of the bar. This is also the interpretation given by GE (→FE→EE).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Interpretations within context

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

b. 83-86

composition: Op. 24 No. 2, Mazurka in C major

The slur in A

Slurs in GE (→FE→EE)
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Both the slur end in bar 84 (the last one in the line) and the slur beginning in bar 85 are notated in A in the manner that indicates uninterrupted slurring. Yet in GE (→FE→EE) those slurs were reproduced as separate ones, which - considering consistent two-bar slurs in bars  75-82 and 87-88 - may be deemed acceptable.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

b. 84-85

composition: Op. 24 No. 2, Mazurka in C major

A possible reading of the slurs of A (→GE→FE), slurs in EE3
 

The slur of EE1 (→EE2)
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In A (→GE→FE), the slur at the end of bar 84 does not match the slur in bar 85 that opens a new system. The slur in bar 85 is drawn as a new one, not a continuation. This inaccurate notation may be interpreted in two ways:

  • the way Chopin notated the slurs in bars 76-77; that version can be found in EE3; 
  • the way in which the slur in bars 80-81 are notated; that version appears in our main text as the simplest one. 

In EE1 (→EE2) the slurring discrepancy was resolved by omitting the slur at the end of bar 84.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Inaccurate slurs in A

b. 86-87

composition: Op. 24 No. 2, Mazurka in C major

The musical term in A

The position of the term altered in GE (→FE→EE)
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The beginning of poco ritenuto in A falls more or less above the 3rd crotchet of bar 86. In GE (→FE→EE) that indication was placed earlier, at the beginning of the bar, which certainly does not agree with Chopin's intention. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE

b. 88

composition: Op. 24 No. 2, Mazurka in C major

A single bar line in  A

A double bar line in GE (→FE→EE)
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A has a single bar line here. Chopin sometimes used double bar lines but did not add them automatically to indicate changes of key, where their significance is mostly conventional.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions