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4 staccato dots in AI |
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Dots in bar 17, 19 & 21 in AF |
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Dot in bar 19 in FE |
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Dots in bars 19, 21 & 23 |
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No marks in EE |
In the majority of the sources it is only some of the staccato dots that are present at the beginning of b. 17, 19, 21 and 23. All four dots are written – paradoxically – only in AI. This is the version we give in the main text, since nothing indicates that it could have been something other than mistakes and inaccuracies of the engravers or of Chopin himself that contributed to the creation of the other versions. It is particularly the missing mark in AF in b. 23 that could have been provoked by corrections to the layout in b. 21-23 – from the 2nd beat of b. 21 on, Chopin moved all the a notes from the bottom to the top stave (in GE the note in b. 23 is on the bottom stave and is provided with a dot). Staccato marks in all four places are present in AF in analogous b. 109-115.
category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information
issues: Errors in FE, Corrections in A, Deletions in A, Inaccuracies in A
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins