Issues : Inaccuracies in GE
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b. 6
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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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 category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Wedges |
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b. 31
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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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 |
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b. 74-75
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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For our main text we adopt the version appearing in both EE and GC (sustained c sharp2, one accent). Lack of a tie sustaining c sharp2 in FE could be easily considered an omission were it not for an additional accent at the beginning of bar 75, which in a sense confirms the need to repeat the note. Despite all that, we consider errors and misunderstandings to be the most probable source of the version of FE; that view finds confirmation when we make a comparison with analogous bars 416-417, in which FE stays in compliance with the remaining sources. The version of GE results from a routine moving of the accent to the note head side. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in FE , Inaccuracies in GE , Placement of markings |
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b. 97
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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There are slight differences between particular sources as regards the scope of the hairpin mark category imprint: Source & stylistic information issues: Inaccuracies in GE , EE inaccuracies |
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b. 97-98
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composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor
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The slurs in GC are written in a careless manner, so the exact moment when the first of them ends (on the 1st or the 2nd beat of the bar) and the other one begins (on the 2nd or the 3rd beat) is not clear. The slur in GE is not divided at all, perhaps due to that ambiguous notation. Our interpretation of GC takes into account the copyist’s evident tendency to draw slurs vigorously, making them longer rather than shorter. In our main text we do not end the slur in bar 97, following EE and FE in that respect. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in GC |
major Op. 27 no. 2).
, yet they are probably unintended. We give the version of 
