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The chord with an additional b1 note we encounter in the sources is most probably Chopin's mistake, which is supported by the following arguments:
- there are no musical reasons to differentiate b. 48 and 281 from b. 22, 74 and 307, in which GE and FE (→EE1) feature chords with three sounds;
- In [A] Chopin wrote a four-note chord with b1 only once in b. 48, since b. 268-310 were certainly marked in an abridged manner as a repetition of b. 35-77;
- b1 is necessary a bar earlier (b. 21 and anal.) to clearly mark a dominant seventh chord following B
in the preceding bar; - an erroneous repetition of the beginning of b. 47 or removal of the b1 note only in b. 22 and 74 (disregarding b. 48) constitute highly likely mechanical causes of the mistake.
Taking into account the above, in all five places we give a chord without b1. In EE2 (→EE3) an inverse revision was performed, i.e. all the discussed places include a four-note chord.
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