Issues : Wedges

b. 6

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

A wedge in A

A dot in GE (→FEEE)

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The staccato mark from A was rendered in GE (→FE>EE) as a dot. In the editors' opinion,  interpreting that mark as a wedge is much more justified, the arguments being its shape (despite its small size it is a line clearly standing out from among the surrounding dots) and the presence of unmistakable wedges in the analogous bars 12, 44, 90, 94 and 96.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Wedges

b. 35

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

A wedge in A

A dot in GE (→FEEE)

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What is clearly a wedge in A has been reproduced in GE (→FEEE) as a dot. The entire Opus 24 has only dots as staccato signs in the first editions.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Wedges

b. 90

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

A wedge in A

A dot in GE (→FE)

No sign in EE

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An evident wedge in A was reproduced in GE (→FE) as a dot (in GE, wedges were not used even once throughout the Mazurkas Op. 24). In EE, the sign was omitted.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Errors in EE , Wedges

b. 92

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

A dot in A (→GEFEEE)

The editors' proposition

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All the sources have staccato marked here with a dot. As in A Chopin used wedges in all the three neighbouring similar phrases, we consider this single dot to be an inaccuracy of notation.

category imprint: Interpretations within context

issues: Wedges

b. 94

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

A wedge in A

No sign in GE1 (→FEEE)

A dot in GE2 (→GE3)

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The wedge that can be seen in A above the crotchet on the 2nd beat of the bar was omitted from GE1 (→FEEE). The correction was made in GE2 (→GE3), i.e. a dot was added.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions , Wedges