Slurs
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b. 17-18
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composition: Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major
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The shorter slurs of AI is undoubtedly the original version. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations |
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b. 19-20
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composition: Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major
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The notation of the slur in bar 20 in A must be considered as inaccurate – the slur is most probably broken (perhaps there was no more ink in the quill). This shortening was not included already in GE. In the remaining sources, the entire bar is provided with a separate slur. From bar 20, CDP is written by another hand, considering performance indications (at least some of them). Taking this into account, we already include the versions of this source in the notes concerning performance indications. In this case, in the copied manuscript there were most probably two whole-bar slurs. category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information |
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b. 25-26
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composition: Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major
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The slurring of these bars in A is not entirely clear due to the transition to the new line of the text. However, it does not seem that Chopin would like to deviate from the clear slurs he wrote in AI. This is how it was most probably understood in the base texts for FE and EE, as well as CDP. The two-bar slur in GE is a different attempt to interpret the notation of A, yet it does not reveal anything concerning Chopin's view on this issue. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in GE |
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b. 26
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composition: Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major
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The two visible in CDP slurs in the L.H., each embracing 6 notes, are almost certainly an addition of the copyist, who marked the original grouping of semiquavers in this way. It was necessary, as the two authentic ties, indicating the correct grouping, were replaced in CDP with one, which enabled writing the 2nd half of the bar as repetition of the first. Therefore, we consider these slurs as a part of an abbreviated notation in this bar. The copyist used a similar measure in bars 42-43. category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources |
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b. 28-29
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composition: Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major
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Replacing two slurs of AI with one longer in A seems to be not only intended to improve the notation, but it also shows a changed performance concept – see the note to bar 29. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations |
