In accordance with the analysis of the or marks written by Chopin in A in this and analogous pairs of bars (see b. 6-7), in the main text we give an averaged, more or less one-bar long hairpin featured in FC and EE. According to us, all marks, regardless of their length, should be interpreted as long accents.
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issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins, EE inaccuracies, Inaccuracies in FC
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins