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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
EE
Main text
GC - Gutmann's copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
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  b. 287

Short accent in EE, and possibly in GC

Long accent in FE & GE, and also probably in GC

The accent form intended by Chopin is hard to determine: it is rather short in EE and rather long in FE and GE. The accent in GC can be interpreted both ways. 

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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