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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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Issues : Errors of GC

b. 89-92

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Slur in A (→EE)

Slur in GC, literal interpretation

Slur in FE

No slur in GE
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In GC bars 89-90 end the line of text. This caused the copyist to have erroneously omitted the opening part of the slur – he wrote only the ending fragment in bars 91-92. In GE this fragmentary slur was overlooked or omitted. For the joining of the slur in FE to the preceding one see the note in bar 88.
In A, the way the slur ends makes it clearly a "tenuto-slur". This was properly rendered only in EE. See also the note in bar 92.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Errors in GE , Inaccuracies in GC , Errors of GC

b. 95

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Long accent in A

No mark in GC (→GE)

in FE

Short accent in EE
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The typical long accent in A was misrepresented in FE (as a diminuendo hairpin) and EE (as a short accent). In GC (→GE) the sign was overlooked.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in FE , EE inaccuracies , Errors of GC

b. 97-98

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In GC (→GE1) the crotchets in the middle voice of the R.H. – both in bar 97 and the first in bar 98) – are written without the extending dots. The subsequent impressions of GE correct this patent oversight.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Errors of GC

b. 101-102

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Slurs in A

Slur in GC (→GE) & FE

Slurs in EE
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The bottom arms of the   hairpins written in A look like combined slurs, which misled both the copyist and the engraver of FE. The version of EE also results from a misunderstanding of the notation of A, although in this case it was rather the deletion of the abandoned version of bar 102 that contributed to the misunderstanding.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , EE inaccuracies , Errors of GC

b. 103

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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GC overlooked the dots extending the 2nd crotchet in the R.H. GE corrected this oversight.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Errors of GC