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Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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b. 505-508

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

No slurs in A (→FC→GE1, →FE→EE)

Slurs in GE2 (→GE3)
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The slurs in b. 505-506 and 507-508 visible in GE2 (→GE3) cannot be authentic; they were probably added after b. 503-504 due to the extensions of the bass notes.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 507-508

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Slur in bar 507 A (→FC)

Slur to bar 508 in FE (→EE) & GE
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Just like in b. 497-498, the slur of A (→FC) must be inaccurate.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions , FE revisions

b. 508-515

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

4 six-note slurs in A (contextual interpretation→FE→EE)

2 five-note slurs & 1 longer in FC

3 five-note slurs & 1 longer in GE1

4 five-note slurs in GE2 (→GE3)
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The slur of A in b. 508 indicates the e2 minim in the next bar clearly enough for it to be considered a 6-note slur, according to us. This is how it was interpreted in FE (→EE). However, we consider a similar slur in FC to be shorter, encompassing 5 notes, since the minim starting in b. 509 is written at quite a distance from the bar line and does not seem to be related to that slur. The 5-note slur in GE corresponds to that interpretation. The 3 remaining slurs in A (b. 510-511, 512-513 and 514-515) undoubtedly encompass 6 notes, which was also correctly reproduced in GE (→EE), whereas in FC – inaccurately and with mistake (the missing slur in b. 512-513). GE1 repeated the notation of FC, adding the overlooked slur (anyway, the addition is careless, since when interpreted literally, the slur begins from the tied e2 crotchet at the beginning of the bar). GE2 (→GE3) eventually unified the slurs, so that all encompass quavers only.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions , Errors of FC , Inaccuracies in FC

b. 511-515

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Slur in bar 511 in A (→FE)

No slurs in FC (→GE1)

Slurs in bars 511-512 in EE

Slurs in bars 511-515 in GE2 (→GE3)
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The overlooked slurs are almost certainly an inaccuracy of notation, both in A (→EE) and FC (→GE1). The slur added in b. 512 (only!) in EE is probably a mistake; just like in FE, the engraver placed slurs in the entire line; however, he did not notice that in FE the line ends a bar earlier than in EE. In the main text we complete the slurring of A; such a procedure was performed also in GE2 (→GE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Errors of A , Errors of FC

b. 523

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Slur in bar 523 in A (→FE→EE)

Slur to bar 524 in FC (→GE)
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According to us, the longer slur of FC is an inaccuracy of the copyist, hence in the main text we give the whole-bar slur of A. We consider the other possibility – the slur having been added in FC by Chopin – to be less likely (see, however, b. 531-536).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FC