The visible in FED pencilled entry of Chopin (8 3a and a line over the descending scale, creating a kind of an octave sign) constitutes, according to us, a variant in which the indicated scale figuration fragment is to be extended by an octave – ottava terza, as this entry is to be deciphered, probably signalises that the sequence of quavers, in the printed version filling generally the two-line octave, is supposed to include the three-line octave too). Chopin would often write this kind of scale or passage figuration extensions in pupils' copies, e.g., in the Concerto in E Op. 11, mvt II, bar 58-59, Nocturne in F
minor, Op. 48 No. 2, bars 113-114, Nocturne in E major, Op. 62 No. 2, bars 68-69, or Waltz in A
major, Op. 42, bars 240-244.
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