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Op. 25 No 10, Etude in B minor

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Issues : Cautionary accidentals

b. 7-8

composition: Op. 25 No 10, Etude in B minor

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In the 2nd half of the bar the sources repeat the sharps before A1-A and a-a1. In the main text we delete the unnecessary signs.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 28

composition: Op. 25 No 10, Etude in B minor

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In GC, FE and EE the only accidental before the last chord in the R.H. is the cautionary  before e1. According to us, the sign is not superfluous here, contrary to the  returning f1, which was added only in GE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 47

composition: Op. 25 No 10, Etude in B minor

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Chopin introduced the cautionary sharp before the grace note in GC (→GE). In GE2, another  was added before the top note of the octave, d3. In the main text we include both signs.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 67

composition: Op. 25 No 10, Etude in B minor

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The cautionary  before the grace note was written by Chopin in GC (→GE) and probably in the base text to EE. In GE2 (→GE3) a  was added also before the top note of the octave, d3. In the main text we include both signs.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 90-98

composition: Op. 25 No 10, Etude in B minor

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The sources include sharps before all a and a1 notes (except for a1 in bar 95 in GC, GE and FE and in bar 96 in EE). It seems that in this transitory fragment, preparing the return of the B minor key and, de facto, already maintained in it, both keys – B major and B minor – overlapped in Chopin's mind. Perhaps it also had to do with Chopin's general uncertainty concerning the validity of the last key signature (cf. the note to the Etude in G minor, No. 6, bars 7-8). 

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Cautionary accidentals