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WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

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Issues : Inaccurate slurs in A

b. 55

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

No slur in A1 & EL

Slur in CJ & CK, literal reading

Slur in CB & #contextual interpretation of CJ & CK
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

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

b. 58

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

Slur in A1, literal reading

No slur in CJ, CK & EL

Slur in A1 (contextual interpretation) & CB
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The mark visible in A1 over the 2nd and 3rd quavers in the 2nd half of the bar is probably a slur. At the same time, it seems likely that, taking into account the partially draft nature of A1, it is supposed to mark a half-bar slur, which would be natural in this context (cf. b. 22). This figure, just like all the similar ones, is encompassed with a half-bar slur also in CB. In the main text we do not give this slur, omitted by Chopin in [A2] (→CJ,CK).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A