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Thanks for bringing this up, Mark. I will order the Williams, as well. I suspect, though, that it doesn't have the kind of detail that would be most interesting: who first started doing this or that and when.

I have a inactive Facebook account and was tempted to activate it to view the site, needing a lot of comic relief right now.

I have often wished for such a book, MarkSealey. Please post if you find one.

I think that your concern about version 2 was justified. Students tend to exaggerate the shortness of shortened notes.

Sorry, Schonbergian, I don't quite get the second part of your post, since I don't think I ever referred to either eight note, just the dotted eighth and sixteenth. But if you think that the first eighth note of the pair in the first measure should also be marked staccato, that is certainly possible...

I don't see exactly why the dotted 8 would be performed shorter, since there is no indication for that. We've had discussions about "unmarked" articulation being shorter in the past here - but that was always in the context of a pre-Romantic piece, generally. I have always understood the ...

You are very welcome, gogreen. I agree completely; clean and uncomplicated is always best.

The slurs in example 1 mean to make breaks between the dotted eighths and sixteenths. If that is all you want, then the first example is simpler and therefore better. However, if you want the value of exactly one eighth note, followed by a rest of exactly one sixteenth note, you will need to write i...

As mentioned in a previous post, I think that such editions are very helpful for reference purposes, since it is always good to know the opinion of excellent musicians. And since so many original sources are available online and good urtext and critical editions are so prevalent, and no one is now a...

Chopin seems to be doing something unusual with several of the slurs in the Etude op. 25 no. 4. Examples 1 and 2 are from the composer's autograph. What can be the logic behind: Chopin Etude op 25 no 4 slurs 1.jpg Chopin Etude op 25 no 4 slurs 2.jpg The slur at * in example 1 overshoots the last not...