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b. 232
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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IE added 4 short category imprint: Differences between sources issues: FE revisions |
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b. 232-236
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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Short slurs, encompassing pairs of quavers played in one hand position, are written in A only above the first two pairs of four encompassed by one longer slur in bars 232-233, 233-234 and 234-235. Patchy slurring also apply to bars 235-236 – slurs are omitted over 4 out of 7 pairs of quavers. This notation is due not to musical reasons, but to graphic ones – Chopin omitted slurs that would be difficult to write under the octave sign, hoping that those he wrote would be treated by the performers (and perhaps the engraver) as model ones. This observation is confirmed by the notation of A at the transition between bars 232 and 233 – at the end of the line (bar 232), there is no slur under the word loco, but a slur ending can be found at the beginning of bar 233, where nothing makes it difficult to write the slur. For this reason, we add the omitted slurs in the main text, which was already done in GE (→FE,EE,IE). category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions , Uncertain slur continuation |
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b. 233-235
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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According to us, the marks visible in A over the three L.H. minims are to be interpreted – despite the small differences in their shape and position – as long accents referring to these syncopated L.H. chords. The editions reproduced correctly (more or less) only the 2nd and 3rd mark as short accents under the L.H. minims. By contrast, the mark in bar 233 was assigned to the R.H. and, more importantly, moved a quaver earlier, which is clearly contrary to the A notation. A similarly placed, wrong mark is also in bar 234, in which the A accent was reproduced twice, once in the R.H., and once in the L.H. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Long accents , Errors in GE |
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b. 235
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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The category imprint: Interpretations within context issues: Accidentals in different octaves |
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b. 235
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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In the main text we omit the cautionary flats to the A category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals |
marks, indicating long accents, as in 
to the bottom note of the 7th quaver in the bar is missing in the sources, as both Chopin and the publishers considered the accidental to the 1st quaver to be valid also here.
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