Select: 
Category
All
Graphic ambiguousness
Interpretations within context
Differences between sources
Editorial revisions
Corrections & alterations
Source & stylistic information
Rhythm
All
Pitch
Rhythm
Slurs
Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
Verbal indications
Pedalling
Fingering
Ornaments
Shorthand & other
Importance
All
Important
Main


Rhythm

b. 199

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

..

In FE (→EE1) the dots prolonging the E and b minims were overlooked. The mistake was corrected in EE2 (→EE3). See also the next note.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 201-202

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

Slur d1-b in FE (→EE1)

Tie to b in GE & EE2 (→EE3)

..

In FE the tie to b was inaccurately reproduced, as a result of which it looks like a slur meant to combine d1 on the 3rd beat of b. 201 with b in b. 202. This is how it was understood in EE1, in which a slur clearly combines those two notes. The patent mistake was corrected in EE2 (→EE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Tie or slur

b. 201-203

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

..

In AImaz the minims on the 2nd beat of b. 201, 221 and 223 are written in one-part notation, without crotchets in unison, whereas in b. 203 Chopin specified the notation by adding crotchet rests on the 2nd beat of the bar. Wherever it is not directly indicated that the crotchet that ends the bar falls within the duration of the preceding minim, the bar may be erroneously interpreted, i.e. as if it were containing four beats. In the Andante spianato, Op. 22, written a few years earlier, Chopin left such a spare notation in b. 78 and 90 that the versions of notation of certain editions were inaccurate or wrong.

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

b. 202

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

..

The corrections visible in AImaz reveal that not only did Chopin change the pitch of the top note of the 1st chord, but also the rhythm of the 1st beat of the bar. The starting point were 2 g1 quavers, not beamed: . Chopin then added semiquaver rests and shortened the second quaver: . Eventually, the change of the pitch of the top note of the chord brought further changes to the notation, including the abandonment of the rest in the R.H. part: .

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Dotted or even rhythm

b. 204-205

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

..

In AImaz a dotted rhythm is to be found three times here – on the 1st beat of b. 204 and on the 2nd beat of b. 205 and  further on in b. 204. In the case of the latter, the dots prolonging the crotchets and the quaver flags were most probably added as a change of the initial version with two crotchets. In the final version of the Polonaise, this motif appears twice (also in b. 145-146), in which a dotted rhythm was used only at the beginning of b. 145.

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Chopin's hesitations , Dotted or even rhythm