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Bar 21 appears at the beginning of the system in GE (→FE→EE); this is most probably the reason why the notation of slurs at the juncture of bars 20-21 is unclear. The curved line running from f sharp2 in bar 20 seems to be a tie, yet its ending in bar 21 is missing. Instead, bar 21 contains a line that clearly suggests a continuation of some phrasing slur from bar 20; as a result, a single phrasing slur from the minim f sharp2 to b sharp1should be considered the only natural interpretation of both those lines. Still, a comparison with similar bars 25-26 and 91-92 makes one conclude that the notation of bar 21 is most probably erroneous, and that Chopin did not intend the slurring in that fragment to differ from the slurring found in its later repetitions.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness
issues: Inaccuracies in GE
notation: Slurs