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Op. 24 No. 2, Mazurka in C major

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Issues : EE revisions

b. 46

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

A dot in A (→GE1→FE) and EE3

No staccato sign in EE1 (→EE2), GE2 (→GE3)
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The lack of the staccato sign in EE1 (→EE2) is certainly an error. The same inaccuracy in GE2 (→GE3) is puzzling, yet an accidental omission is also a plausible explanation here as well. The dot in EE3 was added on the basis of GE1, as the reviewer of  EE3 definitely availed himself of that German edition.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , EE inaccuracies

b. 48

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

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Apart from the authentic accent placed between the staves, EE3 has an extra accent added above the 3rd crotchet of the R.H. That revision is probably based on additional accents introduced in EE1 in analogous bars 16 and 20. Cf. the note to bars 48 and 52.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 48-49

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

Without a slur in A (→GE→FE→EE1→EE2)

A slur in EE3
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The slur added in EE3, probably by analogy to the slur added in bars 16-17 in EE, is certainly inauthentic.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 48-52

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

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In bars 48 and 52 in EE, the R.H. part is split into two voices, just like in the previous bars: . We retain the notation of A (→GE→FE), apparently inconsistent but reflecting the pragmatism of Chopin's pianistic thinking. An identical change of the graphical layout was also introduced in analogous bars 16, 20 and 100 of EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 57

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

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The extent of the slur in the L.H. that begins in A on the 3rd crotchet of bar 56 is not quite clear. In the editors' opinion that slur probably led to the deleted chord at the beginning of bar  57. In GE1 (→FE) it was brought as far as the 2nd crotchet, which does not follow in any way from A. That notation, incomprehensible in the context, was changed in EE, as well as in GE2 (→GE3) in the manner that we consider to be the most proper reading of A.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccurate slurs in A