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Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

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Issues : Accompaniment changes

b. 69-85

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

Chords in As

Sixths in AI

b & sixth in A (→FE→GE,EE)
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The evolution of the accompaniment in bars 69 and 85 consisted in reducing the number of notes on the 2nd and 3rd beats of the bar – As features two triads, AI two sixths, whereas in A and in the editions, Chopin also omitted the top note in the first sixth.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accompaniment changes

b. 70

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

Version in As, suggested contextual reconstruction

AI

A (→FE→EE,GE1op→GE2op→GE3op) & GE2no2

No tie to g1 in #GE1 no2
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The interpretation of the notation of the part of the L.H. in As is not obvious. According to us, Chopin, writing three crotchets in bar 70, wrote the only moving voice, hence we suggest a natural addition compliant with the previous bar and analogous to the triad version written out with notes in bar 66 as the version "editors". Subsequent changes consisted in reducing the number of notes (dyads in AI) and delaying the entrance of the b note in A and in the editions.
The missing tie of g1 in bars 69-70 must be a result of an oversight of the engraver of GE1no2.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions , Accompaniment changes

b. 71-88

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

Tied minim e in As

Crotchet e in AI

e-b in A (→FE→GE,EE)
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We consider the b (b?) crotchet visible in As at the beginning of bar 71 to be crossed out; it is also absent in AI. Eventually, Chopin restored it in this place, yet only as an echo of the note played in the previous bar. In As, a longer hold of the bass e is also noteworthy, abandoned in subsequent sources. The same in bars 87-88 where this figure is repeated. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accompaniment changes

b. 77-80

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

As

AI

A (→FE→GE,EE)
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The version of As undoubtedly gives way to both later ones, which, actually, differ only in two elements – the rhythm of the melody in bar 77 and the number of touches in the part of the L.H. in bar 79. The same as in bar 71, the change of rhythm in bar 77 could have been introduced in A as a correction of the earlier rhythm of the crotchets.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accompaniment changes , Main-line changes

b. 81

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

D in As & A (→FE→GE,EE)

d in AI
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D in As is written as an alternative version of the 1st crotchet in bar 65, on the staff below (cf. the note on bar 65). In this section of the Waltz, all such alternative entries were most probably intended for diversification of the repetition of the written out bars 65-80 as bars 81-96.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Accompaniment changes