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Long, short & 2 long accents in A (literal reading) |
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3 short accents in FC |
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2 short accents in GE1 |
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4 short accents in A (contextual interpretation→FE→EE) & GE2 (→GE3) |
Three out of four L.H. accents in these bars are longer in A than the others, undoubtedly short (although not as long as the one in b. 503). The remaining sources contain short accents only, while FC is missing the last one, whereas GE1 – the last two. As the version of A we give the literal interpretation, with three long accents. However, in the main text we adopt short accents, since Chopin, by means of placement of an accent, i.e. under or over the notes, indicated whether an accent refers to the crotchet (over, short accent) or to the minim (under, long accent), and the discussed accents are written over the notes.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, Errors in GE, GE revisions, Errors of FC
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins