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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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b. 132

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Dotted crotchet in A (→FE,EE)

Crotchet without dot in GC (→GE)
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The missing dot extending c in GC (→GE) is most likely a result of the copyist's oversight. The fact of sustaining this note slightly longer than in analogous bars 101 and 107 could have been related to its repetition in the middle of the previous bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GC

b. 132

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

e1 in A (→FE1,EE,GC→GE)

e1 in FE2 (→FE3)
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It is also in this bar that we give the unambiguous version of A (→EE,GC→GE) in the main text, in spite of the fact that while proofreading FE2 (→FE3), Chopin added a  lowering e1 to e1. This version must be considered as authentic, yet not necessarily final – the composer, not seeing the following text in this line, could have heard here a harmonic progression analogous to the one in bars 101 and 126, therefore, in the previous phase of the phrase's development.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors resulting from corrections , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 132-133

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

 in A

 in GC (→GE)

in FE

 cresc. in EE
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All versions of dynamic indications differing from the one written in A result from an inaccurate reproduction of the notation of the autograph:

  • shift of the cresc. indication in GC, slightly intensified in GE, is an inaccuracy that was probably aimed at keeping the notation transparent. Its possible influence on the performance seems to be marginal.
  • the changes introduced in EE (forced by the start of a new line), and particularly the ones in FE, in which the  hairpin was shortened and the cresc. indication was omitted, contribute to a more serious change of the layout.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , EE inaccuracies

b. 132-133

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Fragment of slur in A (→GC)

Slurs in FE

Slurs in EE

No slurs in GE
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In both A (→GC) and EE, starting a new line resulted in inattention and leaving unfinished fragments of slurs (in A in bar 131, in EE in bar 132). FE completed the slurs in keeping with the analogous bars 125-127 and the R.H. slurs. This might have been done by the reviser or even the engraver. We give this undoubtedly right version in the main text. However, GE not only left bars 132-133 without slurs but omitted the second one in bar 131.

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

issues: EE revisions , Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions , Uncertain slur continuation

b. 133

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Octave in A (→FE1,EE,GC→GE)

Three-note chord in FE2 (→FE3)
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A (→FE1,EE,GC→GE) has only the g1-g2 octave as a semiquaver. Chopin completed it with the c2 note in a proofreading of FE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE