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Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

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Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

b. 1

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

in A

in FE (→GE,EE) 
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In the main text we give the suggestive and explicit vertical accent of A. It is hard to determine whether substituting it in FE (→GE,EE) with a common accent was a result of Chopin's intervention or of the engraver's inaccuracy.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE

b. 1-6

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

Possible long accents in A

Possible short accents in A (→FE→GE,EE)
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Determining which type of accents Chopin had in mind at the time of writing A is not an easy task. The marks have different length, yet it is rather a result of a hasty notation than the will to differentiate them. According to us, this fact supports the decision to consider them as short accents, being the most natural solution in this context. This is how they were reproduced in FE (→GE,EE). Due to the described doubts, we also give long accents as a possible interpretation of A.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

b. 2-4

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

Possible short accents in A

Possible long accents in A

Short accents in FE (→GE,EE) 

Possible long accents in FE (→GE,EE) 
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Lack of the accent in the middle of bar 4 is probably an inaccuracy of the notation of A – it seems highly unlikely that this bar was supposed to be less accentuated than bar 2. In the main text we suggest all accents added probably in a proofreading of FE (→GE,EE). The added accents do not differ from the adjacent ones, therefore, we accept both possibilities of their interpretation – cf. bars 1-6.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 2-4

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

No marks in A

 signs in FE

Accent &  in GE & EE

Accents suggested by the editors.
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The  marks, added by Chopin probably in a proofreading of FE (→GE,EE), are certainly meant to be long accents and this is how we give them in the main text. In bar 2 the length of marks in GE and EE corresponds quite well with the size of Chopin's long accents, although most probably by accident.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 3

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

Dot in A (→FE→GE1,EE)

No mark in GE2 (→GE3→GE4)
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In GE2 (→GE3→GE4) the staccato dot was omitted.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE