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a-c1 in FEJ & FES, contextual interpretation, and FED, possible interpretation |
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When publishing the Etude, Chopin envisaged c
1 as the middle note of the chords from 4 to 7. The version is included in FC (→GE), FE and EE, yet only in GE and EE3 it was written without mistakes, with the necessary 
lowering a to a. However, in all three preserved copies with Chopin's annotations there are entries proving the change of intention. In FEJ, a lowering c1 to c1 was added in the 4th chord, in FES such naturals are before the 4th and 6th chords. In addition, the added by Chopin before the 4th chord in FED, despite its lower position, can refer to the middle note (c1), as a should not have raised any doubts even without the necessary . Therefore, in all three cases Chopin changed the middle sound in the chords from 4 to 7 in a simplified enharmonically way from c1 to b. The version (our main text) bears features of Chopin improvement – in the original version, the effect of the change from c1 to b at the transition between bars 41 and 42 is reduced due to the later return of c1 in the middle of bar 42.
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations
issues: Annotations in teaching copies, Annotations in FED, Accompaniment changes, Annotations in FES, Authentic post-publication changes and variants, Annotations in FEJ
notation: Pitch