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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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Issues : Cautionary accidentals

b. 170

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In the main text we omit the redundantly repeated  next to g1 in the 2nd half of bar.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 174

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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We add a cautionary  before d3 in the first semiquaver.in the main text. We also omit the needlessly repeated  before g2 in the 2nd half of the bar.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 176

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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We add a cautionary  before b1 in the L.H. In the analogous bar 172 the homologous  occurs in all the sources.

category imprint: Editorial revisions; Source & stylistic information

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 185

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

b1 (no accidental) in A (→GC,FE,EE) & GE3

b1 (with ) in FEJ

b1 in GE1 (→GE2)
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In the main text we add a cautionary  next to b1 in the R.H. An identical pencilled addition, probably performed by Chopin's hand, can be seen in FEJ. The GE1 (→GE2) version must be an erroneous revision, one of a few in bars 185-186: see the note at the beginning and in the middle of the next bar. In GE3, the  lowering b1 to b1 was deleted.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Annotations in FEJ

b. 197

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In the main text we add cautionary naturals before a and b in the L.H., and a2 and b2 in the R.H. The cautionary naturals were also added in GE1 (before b2), and further ones in GE2 (→GE3) – before a, a1 and a2.
The  before a2 was written into A in the first, deleted attempt to notate the grace notes – Chopin started to write them with stems downwards but changed his mind after having written two of them. It is hard to determine wether the omission of the  in the ultimate record was deliberate or accidental. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Deletions in A