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A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Later impression of GE1
GET - Toruń copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
FEFr - Franchomme copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English Edition
EE3 - Later impression of EE1
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A wedge in A

A dot in GE (→FEEE)

The engraver of GE (→FEEE) used dots to mark the staccato in the entire Nocturne. This clearly contradicts Chopin's notation of A, in which dots and wedges are fairly easy to differentiate both graphically and on the basis of the context in which they occur.

Dots are written with a slight touch of the pen, and mostly look like points. Wedges are thicker and slightly elongated.

Dots usually appear in groups, normally under a slur. Sometimes they are used to emphasize bass notes placed at a certain distance from the neighbouring notes of the accompaniment. Wedges occur only in the right hand, one at a time, normally before rests (bars 13, 14-17, 21, 33-36, 38-40, 42-44, 54 i 56).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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