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4 extra crotchets in A1, literal reading |
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3 crotchets, our variant suggestion |
Additional crotchet stems on the second quavers of three subsequent L.H. figures are featured in A1 only. They separate the middle voice, the echo of the R.H. minims. Therefore, one can ponder whether a literal interpretation of the abridged notation of the 2nd half of b. 14, where four crotchets of this derivative voice correspond to three minims of the melody, is the correct approach in this case – the abridgment could have concerned the quavers only. In the case of such abridgments, Chopin did not always mean a literal interpretation – cf., e.g. the Etude in A
Major, Op. 25 No. 1, b. 19 and 41-43. We consider the literal explanation of the abridgment to be the text of A1, whereas in the main text – in a variant form – we suggest the version with three crotchets.
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