FCI
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FCI - Fontana's copy I
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 66-89

As before, in the manuscripts and in GE various abbreviations of notation were often used.
In A (→FCGE) Chopin wrote down the majority of the groups of repeated quavers as dotted crotchets or minims provided with quaver tremolos. Such a notation is to be found in A (→FC) in b. 66 (L.H. only), 67-70, 72, 74 (L.H. only), 75-83 and in the L.H. only in b. 85 and 88-89. In addition, in FC there is a tremolo in b. 71. In GE all tremolos of FC were repeated except b. 88-89. Apart from tremolos, Chopin used in A (→FC) also / signs to mark b. 87 as a repetition of the previous one.
FCI used only / signs to mark repeating 3-quaver groups. It can be seen in b. 66, 74 and 89 and in the L.H. only in b. 72, 80 and 88. / signs were used to mark b. 85 and 87.

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