Shorthand & other
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b. 1
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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The GE1 and GE2 copies were provided with two types of covers – some gave no information that the piece was intended for piano with orchestra (the phrase "avec accompagnement d'orchestre" was removed). The title page of GE3 explicitly informs us that it is a piece for one piano ("pour le piano seul"). The titles of the remaining editions do not contain a mention of the orchestral accompaniment, although in the case of FE1 (→FE2) one can guess that it is included due to the given prices of the orchestral material (in a full version and in a version reduced to string quartet). category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information issues: GE revisions |
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b. 18-28
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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The second halves of bars 18-23 and 28 are written in AsI in an abridged manner as a repetition of the first ones. category imprint: Differences between sources |
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b. 33-34
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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The bottom notes of the L.H. octaves were not written out in the sources; they were marked with the use of the con 8va indication. In AsI the octave doubling of the bass line is not indicated at all, which may be only a shorthand notation, because also in the solo part at the beginning of bar 35 there is only A category imprint: Source & stylistic information issues: Abbreviated octaves' notation |
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b. 79
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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It is difficult to assume that the removal of the repeat sign for b. 79-95 was not consulted with Chopin. However, the issue is generally obscure, since A is the only source in which the repeat sign was marked – it is absent both in AsI and in the orchestral material GEorch (→FEorch). Therefore, if the repeat signs are not a mistake, at some point Chopin considered expanding the Theme by 16 bars to eventually, after having sent A to the publisher, return to the initial concept. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Chopin's hesitations , Authentic corrections of GE , Changed phrase length |
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b. 95
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations |
, and it seems unlikely that Chopin started the octave progression with a single note.
