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No mark in sources |
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Staccato dot suggested by the editors |
In the main text we add a staccato dot, since the missing staccato mark in this place is most probably an inaccuracy. In A this bar closes the page, and Chopin could not see it when he decided to provide that note with staccato 8 bars later, otherwise he could have added a mark there. In A next to that crotchet one can see a small crossing-out: it is an unfinished head of a minim, pointing to the original concept, or, which is more likely, to Chopin's mistake. We suggest a dot, and not a wedge (cf. b. 344) while adding the mark, since the composer used a dot twice (b. 438 & 446) while repeating that section. Therefore, one can assume that he eventually reached the conclusion that a dot conveys better the performance manner of that note, perhaps taking into account the homogenous nature of the markings of the crotchet bass notes in that section.
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