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Different accents in A, less probable reading |
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Różne akcentyDifferent accents in A, more probable reading |
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Different accents in FC |
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Different accents in EE |
It is not clear which type of accents Chopin had in mind here. Only the sign in bar 54 is clearly longer and this is how it was reproduced in FC (also the engraver of EE treated it differently than the others). As far as the omission of the remaining 5 accents in bars 52-53 is concerned, the visible in A differences in length between the 1st and 4th sign and the remaining three, although minor, can be, according to us, significant. Therefore, in the main text we suggest an interpretation including these differences.
The vertical accents, used in EE in bars 52-53, are most probably an arbitrary decision of the engraver – cf., e.g., the Etude in F major, No. 3, bars 29-31.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins