Slurs
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b. 95-97
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composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major
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The slurring in A in bars 95-97, similarly as in the previous bars, was misrepresented by the copyist and engravers – in GC and EE the slur from bar 95 does not reach bar 96, and in FE the overlapping slurs were interpreted as one slur. In GE the ending of a tenuto slur in bar 97 was misinterpreted by extending it towards the first chord in bar 98. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , EE inaccuracies , FE revisions , Inaccuracies in GC |
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b. 98-104
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composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major
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Bar 99 is the last bar on page what caused errors in the notation of slurs in both manuscripts. A lacks the ending of slur in bar 100 although the end of the slur in bar 99 clearly indicates it should continue, and GC (→GE) lacks the slur beginning in bar 98 completely. In EE, the notation of A was recreated quite faithfully by leadng the slur up to the first note in bar 100. The continuous slur in FE is almost certainly the engraver's invention – Chopin did not proofread FE1. However, it seems possible that Chopin accepted the mergence of slurs both here, and in the subsequent bars. In the main text we keep the separate slurs of A, complementing the first with the omitted fragment at the beginning of bar 100.
category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Inaccurate slurs in A , FE revisions , Inaccuracies in GC |
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b. 101-102
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composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major
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The bottom arms of the category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: Errors in FE , EE inaccuracies , Errors of GC |
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b. 103-104
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composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major
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We give the range of slur according to A (→FE). The notation in GC (→GE) is inaccurate, and in EE probably revised in order to avoid a note without slur. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: EE inaccuracies , Inaccuracies in GC |
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b. 108-111
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composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major
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In A, the L.H. slurring seems to be incomplete, since the motifs in bar 109 are provided with slurs, whereas the analogous motifs in the adjacent bars are not. Due to this reason, in the main text we suggest adding two respective slurs. GC and FE generally repeat the slurs of A; however, both sources reproduced the first slur in bar 109 inaccurately: in FE it begins (on a new line) as if it continued the slur from the previous bar, in which there is however no slur, whereas in GC the slur reaches up to g in the middle of the bar. Since these minor inaccuracies actually do not influence the performance, we consider them to be accidental, insignificant defects. The authentic slurs were arbitrarily prolonged both in GE and EE, differently in each source. category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: EE revisions , GE revisions |
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