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Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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Issues : GE revisions

b. 13

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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We add cautionary flats in the main text. The addition was introduced already in GE2 (→GE3). The same applies to b. 145 and 596.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

b. 18-22

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

No markings in A (→FE→EE)

Pedalling in FC (→GE1) & GE3

Pedalling in GE2
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In the main text we give the pedalling entered by Chopin into FC (→GE1). The same applies to analogous b. 150-151 and 601-602, although the difference in the placement of the pedal release mark is noteworthy. GE2 shifted the  sign to bar 19, precisely after those analogous bars. GE3 reinstated the original version.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FC

b. 30-31

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

in A (literal reading→FE)

 in A (interpretation) & GE2 (→GE3)

Long accent in FC

Short accent in GE1

in EE
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The interpretation of the notation of A is problematic here: b. 30 ends the line, and the  mark goes far beyond the bar line (in b. 31 there is already no mark). We assume that it is a one-and-a-half-bar mark, like in GE2 (→GE3). In the main text, in accordance with the analysis of the Chopinesque  or  marks in this and analog. pairs of bars (see b. 6-7), we give here an averaged, more or less one-bar hairpin of EE. According to us, all marks, regardless of their actual length, should be interpreted here as long accents.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Long accents , EE revisions , Inaccuracies in FE , Scope of dynamic hairpins , GE revisions , Inaccuracies in FC

b. 40

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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The manuscripts are missing the  before the bottom note of the 1st chord in the R.H. The patent inaccuracy was corrected both in FE (→EE) and GE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , FE revisions , Last key signature sign

b. 47-48

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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Just like in b. 23-24, in FE (→EE) this pair of bars was replaced with a double bar with a two-bar rest marked with the digit 2. In GE1 the bars were not merged, but in each of them both rests were provided with digits 1. A similar notation was introduced in GE3, in which, however, the ones in b. 48 were replaced with twos. In the main text we keep the notation of A (→FC), which is also present in GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , FE revisions