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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Issues : GE revisions

b. 401

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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In GC (→GE1) erroneously there is h as the bottom note of the chord in RH, corrected to g in GE2.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: GE revisions

b. 406

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Error in GC in b. 64 - in this manuscript b. 406 is marked in an abbreviated form as repeat of the bar - resulted in GE errors:

  • new slur in RH begins as late as b. 407, which is discussed in a separate annotation;
  • in GE1 on the 3. best of the bar erroneously there is a rest.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 416-431

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Short accent in EE & GC

Long accent in FE

Accent in GE
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The length of an accent used here remains an unsettled issue -  short in EE and GC or long in FE (also in subsequent bars - compare bars 418-431). For GE we adopt a short accent just like GC, and the fact that the accent is placed under the RH part must have been the engraver's arbitrary decision. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Placement of markings , GE revisions

b. 417-431

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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In bars 417, 420-421, 423-429 and 431 augmentation dots for the RH minims were supplemented in GE. The dots were omitted in GC in the right bars of the 75-89 sequence.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 432

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Notation in EE & GC

FE

Rests added in GE
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions