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Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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b. 490-491

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Slur to bar 491 in A (→FC→GE1, →FE→EE) & GE3

Slur in bar 490 in GE2
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The shorter slur of GE2 is an arbitrary revision (similar to b. 489-490), withdrawn in GE3.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 490

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

No mark in A (→FC→GE1, →FE→EE)

Staccato dot in GE2 (→GE3)
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The staccato dot at the beginning of the bar was added in GE2 (→GE3) most probably by analogy with b. 482.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 492-493

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Long accents in A (→FC,FE)

Short accents in GE & EE
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In A there is a clear difference between the long accents in the R.H. and the short accent on A in b. 493. It is noticeable in FC, yet it may easily be considered insignificant, related to natural imperfection of handwriting, which explains the unification of the marks in GE. It is even more difficult to assess the marks in FE; in the entire section, which begins here, the differences between the accents, although visible, do not seem to signalise a different meaning. In the discussed bars we assume that these are long accents.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE

b. 492

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

in A (→FC→GE)

No marking in FE (→EE)
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The missing  in FE (→EE) is most probably an oversight of the engraver. See also the note in the next bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

b. 492

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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In the main text we add a cautionary  before c2. The mark was added also in GE2 (→GE3). In A one can see here a crossing-out, perhaps of a , which would be another dispensable accidental crossed out by Chopin (see b. 490-491). A sharp was added in FESf.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Deletions in A , Annotations in FESf