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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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b. 62

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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FE and GE unnecessarily repeat cautionary naturals next to the E1-E octave. It is a result of literal execution of the manuscripts' abbreviated notation. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 62-63

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Slur to bar 63 in A (→GC,FE)

Slur to end of bar 62 in EE & GE
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Inaccurate slurs in A , Embracing slurs , GE revisions

b. 63-67

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Cresc. in A (→GC→GE)
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In EE and FE crescendo is incomplete: in EE it ends in bar 65, while in FE it lasts only for half of bar 63. These errors probably result from the transition to a new line in FE and to a new page in EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in EE

b. 63

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

a1 in A (→FE,EE) & GE3

g1 in GC (→GE1→GE2)
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The version in GC (→GE1→GE2) is certainly erroneous, for the copy shows no sign of Chopin's correction there. The mistake is probably of a "musical-pianistic" type, and not a lapsus calami – the chord with g1 corresponds exactly to the range of the two last groups of four semiquavers in bar 62. The change in GE3 was introduced presumably after the following bar or FE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context

issues: Errors in GE

b. 64-67

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Slur in A (contextual interpretation→FE)

No slur in bars 65-67 in GC

New slur from bar 66 in EE

4 slurs in GE
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In both manuscripts a new line of text starts from bar 65, resulting in inaccurate or erroneous notation of L.H. slurs. In A the end of slur in bar 64 clearly indicates continuation which is not confirmed by the beginning of slur in bar 65. In GC the slur ends in bar 64 and is not continued in the subsequent bars. The engraver of FE was not mislead by the inaccuracy of A. However, it probably caused an error in EE which starts a new slur from a new line (from bar 66, closely resembling bar 65 beginning a new line in A). GE amended the GC version by adding separate, bar-long slurs in bars 65-67 (probably generalising the slur written in GC in bar 68).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions , Errors of GC , Uncertain slur continuation