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WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

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Issues : Scope of dynamic hairpins

b. 57

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

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A1 contains only . In [A2] (→CJ,CK) Chopin marked this figure analogously to the next bars –  . The particular sources differ in the range of these marks – see the previous note.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins , Balakirev's revisions , Revisions in EL

b. 58

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

  in A1

  in CJ

  in CK

  in CB

  in EL
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The   dynamic hairpins in the copies based directly on [A2] quite significantly differ in their range, although both in CJ and CK the marks are placed more or less symmetrically with respect to the centre of the run. Therefore, one may assume that the situation in [A2] was similar, which points to a more careful notation than in A1. In the main text we reproduce the notation of CK, which does not raise any stylistic doubts, and which probably reproduced the notation of [A2] more faithfully than CJ. The hairpins in EL, adjusted to the semiquaver beaming and maximally extended, must be a result of an editorial revision.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins , Inaccuracies in JC , Revisions in EL