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GE3

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AI - Earlier autograph

A - Autograph

CDP - Copy for Delfina Potocka

FE - French edition

FE1 - First French edition

FE2 - Corrected reprint of FE1

FED - Dubois copy

FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy

FES - Stirling copy

GE - German edition

GE1 - First German edition

GE1a - Corrected reprint of GE1

GE1b - Flawed impression of GE1

GE2 - Second German edition

GE3 - Revised impression of GE2

EE - English edition

EE1 - First English edition

EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1

EE3 - Revised impression of EE2

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b. 15

		No sign in AI & CDP
		Long accent in A, literal reading
		in A (contextual interpretation →GE1→GE1a)
		in FE
		in EE & GE2 (→GE3)

The sign in A may be considered as a long accent, yet according to us, it is much more likely that Chopin had diminuendo hairpins in mind, closing the dynamic wave in this bar.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Scope of dynamic hairpins, GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major