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Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

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b. 54

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

Fingering of  FEJ

 

No fingering suggested
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEJ

b. 54

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

 A, graphic reading

 GE (→FE→EE)
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The hairpins in A may be considered slightly too short (which is difficult to notice in practice with the narrowed notation of  A). Still. Chopin could not have intended a half-bar mark visible in GE (→FE→EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Scope of dynamic hairpins , Unclear hairpins in A

b. 54

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

A wedge in A.

A dot in GE (→FE→EE)
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The sign that was clearly a wedge in A  was replaced with a dot.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE

b. 54

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

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Missing in A (→GE1→FE→EE) is the natural raising d flat2 to d2. This obvious oversight on the part of Chopin was corrected in GE2.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omission of current key accidentals

b. 54

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

A slur in A (→GE)

FE (→EE)
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The slur in FE (→EE) is certainly erroneous - most probably, the engraver (getting his bearings on the basis of the grouping of notes between the rests) embraced the triplet and one note towards the rest with the slur, but he mixed up the directions.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE