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4 short accents in GE2 |
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The notation of accents in A is clear and unambiguous – four long accents on the 3rd beat of each of the bars. In spite of this, the editions did not faithfully reproduce both the placement and the length of the signs. All changes in GE1 and FE are undoubtedly of an accidental nature, which, with a tightly packed text, leads to confusion and impedes the interpretation and reproduction of their notation. Sometimes, the accents start so close to 
that it seems that both signs constitute a pair, accenting one strike together (Chopin would often use such combinations, but in this case A excludes such understanding of these signs). In FE, such pairs were placed so inaccurately that in bars 30 and 32 signs seem to fall only on the 3rd beat of the bar. EE homogenised the notation of bars 30-32, considering the entire 
pairs to be applying to the 2nd beat; the kind of employed accents is unobvious, but they are longer than, e.g. the signs in bars 24-26 and 28. GE2 reproduces the notation of A, only replacing long accents with short ones.
Similar ambiguities and distortions of notation are present also in bars 369-375.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, EE revisions, Inaccuracies in GE, Inaccuracies in FE, GE revisions
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins