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CLI - Copy by Linowski
Ap - Presentation autograph
FE - French edition
FEcor - Chopin's FE proof
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - Second impression of [EE1]
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 38

No mark in CLI & FE (→GE,EE

Probable accent in Ap

Possible long accent in Ap

Possible  in Ap

All three signs of this type in bars 38-39 look like short accents, yet only the one in the L.H. in bar 39 is clearly put under the note it concerns. The signs in the R.H. – here and in bar 39 – are placed after the note, which gives raise to doubts concerning their meaning. According to us, they can be interpreted as:

  • short accents, taking into consideration the shape of the sign, yet not its typical position;
  • long accents, treating the note they concern as an intentional beginning of a sign which combined with its written ending – under the 3rd (bar 38) or 2nd (bar 39) semiquaver of the upper voice – results in a long accent;
  •  hairpins, if we compare them with slightly longer signs in analogous bars.

In the main text we do not consider these ambiguous signs.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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