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Op. 24 No. 4, Mazurka in B♭ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE
Main text
A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Later impression of GE2
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Second impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 9-10

The slur A (interpretation in context)

The slur of GE (→FE→EE)

When read literally, the slur of A  ends over the semiquaver f2. In our opinion, the phrasing aspect of that slur is an argument that points to its inaccurate notation. For our main text we assume the slur reaching the 2nd beat of bar 10, as Chopin clearly wrote two bars earlier. In GE (→FE→EE) the slur ends even earlier, which is surely not implied by the notation of A.

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See b. 7-8

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Slurs

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