Issues : No pedal release mark
b. 40
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composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor
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The missing in A (→FE→EE1→EE2) was probably overlooked by Chopin: the bar closes the page, which favours distraction. The mark was added in FC (→GE) and EE3. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: EE revisions , No pedal release mark , Authentic corrections of FC |
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b. 179-180
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composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor
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The missing mark after , present in A (→FE) in b. 179, could be considered a common inaccuracy resulting from distraction caused by the transition into a new page of the manuscript. However, an identical situation is to be found in A in analogous b. 630; since both places are devoid of pedalling markings in FC (→GE), both marks were probably added in A after FC had been finished. Therefore, Chopin could have considered the marks to be clear enough while completing A. On the other hand, the mark, added – probably by Chopin – in FE (→EE) at the end of b. 631, suggests that the decision was changed (or that the inaccurate notation, perhaps introduced in haste, was completed). Due to the above reason, in the main text we add a mark also in b. 180. EE performed a far-reaching revision: apart from adding a , the slur placed by Chopin over the parts of both hands was doubled under the bottom stave. category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Corrections in A , No pedal release mark , Errors of FC , Inaccuracies in A |
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b. 536
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composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor
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The sources lack an authentic pedal release mark of the pedal from b. 536. The marks added in different places in GE2 and GE3 must be arbitrary. In the main text we suggest that the pedal is held throughout the entire four-bar section, based on one chord, until the end of crescendo, which is natural in this context. category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: GE revisions , No pedal release mark |
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b. 540-543
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composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor
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In the main text we give the pedalling of A, the only irrefutably authentic. The missing pedalling in FC (→GE) may be a result of an oversight of the copyist: overlooked slurs suggest distraction. It is also likely that Chopin added it in A after having prepared FC. The missing mark seems to be an oversight of the engraver of FE. The oversight can result in a long, more or less four-bar pedal, to which this virtuoso passage in loud dynamics prompts. Such a pedalling was indicated – arbitrarily – in GE2 and removed in GE3. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in FE , GE revisions , No pedal release mark , Errors of FC |