Issues : Tenuto slurs

b. 56-57

composition: Op. 28 No. 24, Prelude in D minor

Slurs in A, probable reading

Slurs in FC (→GE)

Slurs in FE

Slur & tie in EE

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The slurring of FC (→GE) is one of a few distinct inaccuracies of the copyist, and yet difficult to explain – cf. b. 27-28, 38-39 or 58. In A the slur starting in b. 57 is a tenuto-slur, according to us, and this is how we reproduce it in the main text. At the same time, we include the ambiguous curved line of A at the beginning of b. 58; the shape thereof resembles a tie, but it is placed at the height of a slur. In FE the curved line was not prolonged beyond the a1 crotchet, whereas in EE, due to a routine shift of the mark to the side of noteheads, it became a tie.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors of FC , Tenuto slurs