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Op. 25 No 10, Etude in B minor

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Issues : Rhythmic errors

b. 28

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

Crotchet rest in GC (→GE), FE & EE

Minim rest suggested by the editors
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It does not seem that the fact of shortening this bar present in the sources – it includes only three crotchets – had any practical or expressive meaning, as it is compensated by the fermata over the final rest. Due to this fact, in the main text we suggest a minim for this rest, compatible with the time signature. Perhaps at an earlier stage of composing the Etude Chopin introduced here certain changes and did not check the rhythmic notation diligently.
The rhythmic values incompatible with the declared time signature appear in one of the autographs of the Nocturne in B major, Op. 62 No. 1, bar 67 – the bar with the 4/4 time signature is filled with a semibreve and minim.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Rhythmic errors

b. 46

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

 (error) in GC (→GE1)

 in FE & EE

 in GE2 (→GE3)
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The erroneous value of the bass e – double dotted minim – written in GC (→GE1) was probably supposed to, according to Chopin's intention, provide a simultaneous decay (before the rest) of all three voices. Therefore, in the main text we suggest a relevant notation, introduced in GE2 (→GE3).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Rhythmic errors , Errors of GC

b. 66

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

 (error) in GC (→GE1)

 in FE & EE

 in GE2 (→GE3)
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions , Rhythmic errors , Errors of GC