Issues : Wedges

b. 6

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Staccato dot in EE and GE

Wedge in GC

No mark in FE

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The staccato sign in EE and GC (→GE) is doubtless authentic. In our main text we give the wedge recorded in GC, as publishers often replaced Chopin's wedges with dots, considering the former to be inaccurate or hasty renditions of the latter (this was a rule for GE, cf. e.g. a characteristic of the B&H edition in the Nocturne in D major Op. 27 no. 2).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Wedges

b. 18

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Staccato dot in EE

Wedge in # GC and FE

Staccato dots in GE

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In the main text we reproduce the wedge that appears in GC and FE, which is almost certainly in compliance with Chopin's notation. In EE and GE, the staccato sign has the form of a dot (and GE has another dot added under the L.H. part). Cf. the note concerning bar 6.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Wedges

b. 31

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

No marks in EE and FE

Wedge in GC

Dots in GE

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Staccato signs in that bar and analogous ones occur very irregularly in the sources. For that reason we do not derive from them any general rule to be applied to similar places in the text. In this bar EE and FE have no sings. The wedge that can be seen in GC was reproduced in GE as a dot; another dot was added for the L.H. Cf. bar 113.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions , Wedges

b. 567

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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A comma-like mark in GC, which here should be read as a wedge, was not - maybe by chance - included in GE. Neither EE nor FE have any mark in this place. 

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Wedges