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WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

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Issues : Inaccuracies in CK

b. 56

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

No signs in A1

  in CJ & CB

 & accent in CK

 in EL
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We consider the accent under the grace note in CK to be an inaccurately written  hairpin. This is how the mark was interpreted by Balakirev in CB. The mark, musically unjustified, was omitted in EL.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Balakirev's revisions , Inaccuracies in CK , Revisions in EL

b. 57

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

No marks in A1 & EL

8 staccato dots in CJ

6 dots in CK

7 dots in CB
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The notation of CK seems to be less reliable due to the densely packed notation. Balakirev limited himself to correcting the patent inaccuracy at the end of the run. As was the case with the slurs, the missing dots in EL are probably a result of an editorial oversight.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Balakirev's revisions , Inaccuracies in CK

b. 57-61

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

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There is no doubt that the slurs in A1, CJ, CK and EL are supposed to encompass the irregular group of small notes, filling the 2nd half of each of these bars. However, it was not written accurately enough in the manuscripts, as a result of which it is only some of the slurs that actually span from the first to the last note (b. 59 in A1 and 57 in CJ and CK). The remaining ones are shorter, sometimes only one note shorter, but in the extreme case – b. 58 in CJ – the slur encompasses only 12 out of 35 semiquavers. We reproduce these inaccuracies only in the graphic transcriptions of the particular sources.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , Inaccuracies in JC , Inaccuracies in CK