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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Main text
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. 585-590

Slur in EE and literal reading of GC (→GE)

Slur in FE

Contextual interpretation of slurs in GC

In the main text we present the GC slurring. Literal reading of the slurs extending over the bar line (bars 588-589) suggests continuation. Such is the interpretation of GE and there is an identical slur in EE. However, we believe that Chopin intended here a new slur from b. 589, similarly to what we find in FE

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GC

notation: Slurs

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