Slurs
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b. 153
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composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I
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It is unclear which slur Chopin meant, since the absence of a slur in FE (→EE1) does not allow us to confront the version of GC with another source modelled after [A]. According to us, the slur of GC may be inaccurate, hence we adopt the more natural version of GE. The slur of EE2, probably modelled after GE, was, however, led from g category imprint: Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , EE inaccuracies , Inaccuracies in GC |
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b. 154-155
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composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I
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The slur's division in EE is an inaccuracy which results from bar 155 starting a new line. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: EE inaccuracies , Uncertain slur continuation |
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b. 156
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composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I
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The shortcomings in the slurring of this bar are certainly errors. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in FE , Errors in GE , GE revisions |
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b. 157-158
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composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I
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The missing slurs in GC (→GE1) must be an oversight – the copyist wrote only the part of the slur starting in b. 158, at the beginning of a new line, overlooking the slurring of b. 157. GE2 limited itself to adding slurs in b. 157 (most probably by analogy with b. 153) – the already printed slur in b. 158 was left unchanged. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: GE revisions , Errors of GC , Uncertain slur continuation |
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b. 157-158
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composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I
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Taking into account the versions of FE and GC, one may assume that the slur of GC at the end of b. 157 could have been added by Chopin. The aim of that change was undoubtedly a slur encompassing the entire three-quaver motif (as it is 4 bars earlier), which was guessed in EE (the correction could have even been introduced by Chopin in the Stichvorlage for EE). GE reproduced the notation of GC literally, i.e. as coinciding slurs. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Embracing slurs , EE inaccuracies , Authentic corrections in GC , Uncertain slur continuation |
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