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Op. 22, Polonaise

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Issues : Long accents

b. 150

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

Long accent in FE (→GE1)

Short accent in EE & GE2 (→GE3)
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies

b. 153-157

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

Long accents in FE

in GE

Short accents in both hands in EE
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FE feature long accents under the last quaver in b. 153, 154 and 156. GE reproduced them as a short  hairpin, reaching the 1st quaver of the next bar, which does not influence its meaning in this case (Chopin would sometimes use such notation in two-note motifs). The notation of EE is inaccurate (the use of short accents) and arbitrary (the marks having been doubled in the L.H. part, probably suggested by the authentic notation on the 2nd quaver of these bars).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE

b. 273-274

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

2 long accents in FE & GE2 (→GE3)

Long & short accents in GE1

No accents in EE

Short accents suggested by the editors
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The difference in the length of the accents, visible in FE between the accent in b. 273 & the 2nd accent in b. 274 and the remaining accents in b. 274-276, does not necessarily mean that they should be diversified. It may be a result of a different origin of these two accents, which were probably added only just in the last stage of proofreading of FE (it is supported by their absence in EE). The latter was inaccurately reproduced in GE1, which was then corrected in GE2 (→GE3).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE