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WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

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b. 37

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

No signs in JC & PE

  in EF

Our variant suggestion
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Lack of dynamic indications in PE may be attributed to a drop in attention span at the time of writing the bar introducing the repetition, not written out. One may confirm or suspect signs of distraction in a few different details of notation, cf. the remarks concerning the R.H. and the beginning and end of the bar in the part of the L.H. Due to this fact, we propose the signs appearing in analogous bars 10 and 18, as well as in EF.

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b. 38

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

No signs in JC

  in EF

  in PE
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In the main text we give the dynamic hairpins after PE (the bar is already marked as repetition of bar 11 – Dal Segno). The signs of EF only slightly differ in their range in comparison with them, while JC is devoid of any markings. 

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b. 40-41

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

No marks in JC & EF

Accents in PE
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b. 40-41

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

No signs in JC & EF

 in PE
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b. 40-41

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

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The accents in the main text are a part of major changes introduced by Chopin into [A] (→PE) in bars 40 and 41.

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