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Op. 28 No. 8, Prelude in F♯ minor

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b. 30

composition: Op. 28 No. 8, Prelude in F♯ minor

 & 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. 

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

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

b. 33

composition: Op. 28 No. 8, Prelude in F♯ minor

 in A (→FE→EE)

No signs in FC (→GE)
..

 hairpin was overlooked in FC (→GE)

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC