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Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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Issues : GE revisions

b. 630-632

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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Just like in b. 179-181, in the main text we add cautionary flats before the E1 and E grace notes in b. 630 and before the D1-D octave in b. 632. The accidentals in b. 630 were added already in GE, whereas those in b. 632 – in GE2 (→GE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

b. 637-639

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Staccato dots in A (→FC→GE1) & GE3

No marks in FE (→EE) & GE2
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In both manuscripts, these bars are a literal repetition of b. 186-188 (they are not written out in full), and like there, staccato dots in b. 637 and 639 are reproduced only in GE1 and GE3. We do not include them into the main text in view of their possible deletion during the proofreading of FE (→EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 640-641

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

No marking in A (→FC→GE1, →FE→EE)

in GE2 (→GE3)
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Just like in b. 189, of which the discussed bar is an exact repetition, in the main text we add , most probably overlooked by inadvertence. The mark was also added in GE2 (→GE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

b. 640-641

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

No sign in A (→FC→GE1, →FE→EE)

 in GE2 (→GE3)
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Similarly to b. 189-190, GE2 (→GE3) arbitrarily added a  modelled after b. 57-58.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 644

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

in A

in FC, FE (→EE) & GE1

No sign in GE2

in GE3

 suggested by the editors
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In A nad FC, this bar is a replica of b. 193, and likewise there we regard the shorter  sign as possibly inaccurate. For that reason, in the main text we give a longer hairpin, modelled on b. 185.
The absence of the sign in GE2 can be explained by an oversight or a revision, aiming to make this bar uniform with the analogous b. 636. GE3 restored the .

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions