The engraver of GE (→FE→EE) 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