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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE2
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. 601

Long accent in EE, contextual interpretation of GC (→GE) & FE

GC (→GE2), literal reading

FE, literal reading

No sign in GE1

Regradless of the differences in length and placement, the marks in all the sources (except GE1, where there is no mark) clearly fall on the minim on the second beat of the bar, which allows for seeing a long accent here - more or less precisely copied.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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