Issues : Embracing slurs

b. 60

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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Both in A and FC the right-hand end of the slur was pulled through to almost the end of b. 60, with a flourish. 

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , Embracing slurs

b. 338-347

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Three-note slurs in A (literal readingFEEE)

Two- & three-note slurs in FC (→GE1)

Two-note slurs in GE2 (→GE3)

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When interpreted literally, the slurs of A in b. 338-339 & 346-347 seem to be reaching the bass note in the next bar. However, according to us, it is an inaccuracy, a manner of writing slurs significantly going beyond the intended range, cf., e.g. the phrase marks in b. 320 (corrected) & 326 (see also the Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 24 No. 1, b. 21, 23-24). Due to the above reason, in the main text we give pianistically natural slurs, modelled after the ones Chopin wrote in analogous b. 440-441 & 448-449. Such a solution was introduced already in GE2 (→GE3). The first slur of FC (→GE1), which is shorter, is probably accidental: the copyist forgot to put the ending of the slur in a new line of the text.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , Embracing slurs , Inaccuracies in FC