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Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

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b. 605

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

No mark in A (→FE→EE)

Staccato dot in FC (→GE)
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The missing staccato mark in A (→FE→EE) seems to be an oversight of Chopin, since corresponding marks are present in the three remaining, analogous b. 22, 46 and 154. The dot in FC seems to have been added after the remaining signs (note and slur) had already been written. Due to very numerous unquestionably Chopinesque additions in FC, it is also here that we can assume Chopin's correction.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FC

b. 613-614

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

 in A (→FC→GE1, →FE→EE)

in GE2 (→GE3)

 suggested by the editors
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In accordance with the analysis of the Chopinesque  or  in this and all analogous pairs of bars (see b. 6-7), in the main text we give an averaged, more or less one-bar  hairpin. According to us, all markings, regardless of their actual length, are to be interpreted as long accents.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

b. 621-622

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

No sign in A (→FC→GE1, →FE→EE)

in GE2 (→GE3)

 suggested by the editors
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The missing  must be an inaccuracy of notation, since corresponding marks –  or  – are in all 11 analogous places. On the basis of an analysis of those marks (see b. 6-7), in the main text we give an averaged, more or less one-bar  hairpin. According to us, all signs, regardless of their actual length, are to be interpreted as long accents. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

b. 629-631

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

in A

Shorter  in FC (→GE)

Longer  in FE (→EE)
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According to us, the differences in the range of the  hairpin are accidental inaccuracies in the reproduction of the notation of A. In the main text we preserve the mark inserted by Chopin's hand, although its starting point cannot be clearly related to the other elements of notation, which was probably the reason for discrepancies in the remaining sources.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Scope of dynamic hairpins , Inaccuracies in FC

b. 636

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

in A (→FE→EE)

No sign in FC (→GE)
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In both manuscripts, this bar is a literal repetition of b. 185 (it is not written out in full), and like there, the oversight of a  sign in FC resulted in GE lacking it.

category imprint: Differences between sources