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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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Issues : Accidentals in different octaves

b. 148

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In A the only accidentals in this bar are two sharps: before G at the beginning of the bar, and g in the R.H. The  before the bottom note of the octave was added in all remaining sources. Besides this  Chopin wrote into GC three more naturals, before the 1st semiquaver (b), and before the last octave (B1-B). GE supplemented the record of GC with a  before b at the start of the 2nd half of the bar (this note is written in the sources on the lower staff). That  was also added in FE2 (→FE3) and EE. The latter further added only both accidentals at the beginning of bar leaving the last octave without naturals.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , FE revisions , Authentic corrections in GC , Errors repeated in EE

b. 150

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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A (→GC,FE1) has no naturals before the upper notes of the 4th and 12th semiquaver (b1 and b2). This inaccuracy, characteristic of Chopin, was gradually corrected in FE – the first  was added in FE2, the second in FE3. All these sources have no  before the 7th L.H. note, b. This, however, is not an error because a b in the 2nd R.H. semiquaver is placed with the appropriate  on the lower staff. The remaining editions have a fully correct text.
Moreover, in the main text we remove the  repeated before g1 in the 8th semiquaver, present in all the sources.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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

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

b. 178

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In A (→GC,FE1→FE2) there is no  raising f1 to f1 in bar 178 and f to f in bar 182. The accidentals were added in EE, GE and FE3.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , FE revisions , Inaccuracies in A , Errors repeated in FE

b. 195

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In A there is no  before the lower note of the octave at the beginning of the bar (D). The accidental was added in all the remaining sources. GC overlooked a  rising f1 to f1 in the chord on the 2nd quaver. The error was rectified in GE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Editorial revisions

issues: Accidentals in different octaves