Slurs
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b. 138-143
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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Bar 139 is not embraced with any slur in GC: the slur from the preceding bars reaches only to the end of bar 138 (the last bar on the manuscript page) and a new slur begins as far as bar 140. We think that, since the slur in bar 138 indicates continuation, one should assume that it was supposed to reach the minim in bar 139. GE has got a different reading of those slurs; one of them ends in bar 138 and another one begins in bar 139. In EE and FE the slur is not divided, which is probably another authentic version of the slurring, alternative to the version of GC. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in GC |
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b. 155-159
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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The earlier beginning of the slur in EE and GC (→GE) seems inaccurate, as the choral phrases of that part of the Scherzo always begin in the 2nd bar of a four-bar section, in this case in bar 156. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in GC |
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b. 159-187
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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In GC, the beginnings of slurs in bars 159, 167, 175 and 183 are clearly placed above the 1st beat of the bar. Such notation may have been intended by Chopin in order to underline the four-bar resounding of the chords ending each one of the choral phrases. However, another possibility is that the notation is simply inaccurate here - there are many places in GC with imprecisely written slurs (and this is how the matter was generally interpreted in GE). As the main text we give the slurring of EE and FE, free of errors or doubts, where the slurs begin on the 2nd beat together with quaver figurations. The issue occurs in other similar fragments that begin in bars 203, 291, 307, 453, 497. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: GE revisions , Inaccuracies in GC |
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b. 166-167
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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In GC (→GE) the slur ends just above the last chord of bar 166, which definitely fails to match Chopin's intentions. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in GC |
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b. 169-170
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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The slur is GE (in both hands) are discontinued here. This is clearly an error caused probably by the erroneous reading of the slur and octave sign in GC. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in GE |
