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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. 30

		& long accent in A, literal reading
		in A, contextual interpretation
		in FC (→GE)
		in FE (→EE)

The mark in A is clearly shorter than the respective one in analog. b. 28, hence one could interpret it as a long accent. According to us, it is more likely that, in the face of the preceding it mark, Chopin meant a diminuendo hairpin. In the main text we keep the slight difference in the range of the marks between those bars, visible in A. Both FC (→GE) and FE (→EE) clearly extended the marks, whereas FC (→GE) also shortened the mark.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Inaccuracies in FE, Scope of dynamic hairpins, Inaccuracies in FC

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Fryderyka Chopina, Warszawa

Op. 28 No. 8, Prelude in F♯ minor