Issues : Dotted or even rhythm
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b. 202
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composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor
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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 g category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Dotted or even rhythm |
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b. 204-205
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composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor
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In AImaz a dotted rhythm is to be found three times here – category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Chopin's hesitations , Dotted or even rhythm |
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b. 218
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composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor
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In addition to the much more serious change of pitch – see the preceding note – Chopin also changed here the rhythm of the 1st beat of the bar from category imprint: Differences between sources |
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b. 220-242
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composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor
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The final version and AImaz differ in the use of dotted rhythms ( category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Dotted or even rhythm |
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b. 234
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composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor
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Chopin added here dotted rhythm while proofreading FE1. The quavers in GE may be the initial version of this and previous, analogous bars (b. 171, 175 and 228), overlooked by Chopin at the time of performing corrections. Two quavers occurring in this passage in AImaz corroborate this hypothesis. category imprint: Differences between sources |
1 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: 
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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.
to 2 quavers.
