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AI - Presentation autograph
A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE3 - Revised impression of EE1
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  b. 4-5

Slur in AI (literal reading) and in A (→GEFEEE)

The slur in AI, contextual interpretation

The slur in A (→GEFEEE)  ends above the quaver gin bar 4. The corresponding sign in AI is ambiguous; the slur end does not cross the bar line, yet the shape of the final (added) section points to f1 in bar 5 as the target note. In the further part of the Mazurka slurs in analogous places are visibly longer: although in bars 8-9 the slur of A is unclear, both AI in that place and A in bars 28-29 and 32-33 have slurs reaching f1. In this situation we consider the notation of bars 4-5 to be inaccurate; this decision finds confirmation in the correction visible in A, consisting in lengthening the slur at the transition between bars 28-29.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw