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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

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

No mark in A1

Short accent in CJ, CK (→CB) & EL

Long accent, our alternative suggestion
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A long accent seems to be more appropriate for a long note, which we suggest as an alternative solution. Due to the densely packed notation of [A2], Chopin could have had problems with marking the desired type of accent clearly.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Long accents

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

No mark in A1 & EL

Accent on a1 in CJ & CK

Accent on g1 in CB
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In the main text we give the accent of [A2] (→CJ,CK). The accent having been moved over the minim is Balakirev's mistake or revision, who placed accents over each of the three g1 minims in b. 58-60.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Balakirev's revisions

b. 58

composition: WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

  in A1

  in CJ

  in CK

  in CB

  in EL
..

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