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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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Issues : GE revisions

b. 142

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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A (→GC,FE1→FE2) has no  raising c1 to c1 in the L.H. The patent Chopin's oversight was corrected in EE, FE3 and GE.
In A (→GC,FE), in the 2nd half of the bar there is an unnecessarily repeated  before c2. The accidental was necessary in the manuscripts because the line ends in the middle of the bar. It was omitted in EE and GE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Omission of current key accidentals , FE revisions , Inaccuracies in A , Errors repeated in FE

b. 144

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In A (→GC,FE) the  raising c2 to c2 is only written before the 8th semiquaver. The accidental before the 2nd semiquaver was added in EE and GE, but only EE removed the then superfluous  in the 2nd half of the bar.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Errors of GC , Errors repeated in FE

b. 144

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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GC overlooked a  rising c1 to c1 in the L.H. The sign was added in GE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Errors of GC

b. 150-151

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

2 slurs in A (→EE)

1 slur in GC (→GE) & FE
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Bar 151 starts a new line in A (→GC), and the literally read slurs, written with impetus, denote one slur over two bars. This reading was reproduced in both FE and GE. Only in EE  each bar is embraced with one slur, presumably on the basis of the comparison with analogous passages – in all seven passages (bars 48-49, 50-51, 56-57, 58-59, 142-143, 144-145 and 152-153) the slurs are separated. Moreover six of the corresponding pairs of bars are written in one line, so that the slurring raises no doubt whatsoever. On this account, we also give separate slurs in the main text.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , FE revisions

b. 152

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In A (→GC,FE) the  raising b1 to b1 is only written before the 8th semiquaver, and there is no raising b to b in the L.H. Chopin wrote in the latter in GC (→GE), it was also added in FE3 and EE. The notation of the R.H. was supplemented in EE and GE, but only EE removed the then superfluous  in the 2nd half of the bar.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , FE revisions , Authentic corrections in GC , Inaccuracies in A