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Op. 28 No. 16, Prelude in B♭ minor

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Issues : Long accents

b. 32

composition: Op. 28 No. 16, Prelude in B♭ minor

Long accent in A (→FC→GE)

Short accent in FE (→EE)
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The mark in A has all the characteristics of a long accent, which was reproduced in FC (→GE), but not in FE (→EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in FE

b. 32

composition: Op. 28 No. 16, Prelude in B♭ minor

 in A (literal reading→FE,FC→GE)

2 short accents in EE

Long accent in A, contextual interpretation
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In A the  mark practically reaches the last semiquaver in the bar and this is how it was reproduced in the majority of the remaining sources. According to us, in this context, Chopin could have meant only a long accent, as he clearly wrote 4 times in the next bar. EE considered – also probably on the basis of the marks in the following bar – that it should be an accent, which was given separately for the right and the left hands. See also the note in b. 33.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , EE revisions

b. 33

composition: Op. 28 No. 16, Prelude in B♭ minor

4 long accents in A (→FE)

4  in FC

4 longer  in GE

8 short accents in EE
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The four marks in A are typical long accents, which, however, were reproduced fairly accurately only in FE. The marks in FC are slightly longer, whereas in GE they were adjusted to the length of an entire semiquaver group. In EE, as it was performed in the preceding bar, the marks were considered accents and were doubled (there are separate accents for the right and the left hands).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , EE revisions , GE revisions , Inaccuracies in FC