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Fig. 3.1 ŠVS II 58v/ii (detail), reproduced by courtesy <strong>of</strong> the Moravian Regional Museum,<br />

Brno. Semiquaver beams have been omitted in error from the upper part <strong>of</strong> the left-hand<br />

piano stave; the rhythm <strong>of</strong> the lower part on the right-hand stave is likewise uncorrected. <strong>The</strong><br />

paste-over in bar 1 <strong>of</strong> the voice part (above the word ‘Bez-to-ho’) is a 1907/8 revision, as is<br />

the vocal rhythm in bar 3 (‘vý-či-tek’).<br />

<strong>The</strong> quintuple metre <strong>of</strong> this passage originally also extended as far as the initial<br />

section <strong>of</strong> Števa’s Allegro response (figs 95–96):<br />

Ex. 3.2<br />

<strong>The</strong> 1903 metre change from 5/8 to 4/8 clearly goes beyond mere notational niceties.<br />

Janáček had made excursions into quintuplets or quintuple metre before: an early<br />

example is found in the outer Adagio sections <strong>of</strong> the fifth movement <strong>of</strong> the Idyll for<br />

strings (VI/3; 1878), whilst later instances can be found in the early versions <strong>of</strong> the<br />

‘Úvod’ and ‘Gospodi pomiluj’ movements <strong>of</strong> the Mša glagolskaja (III/9; 1927). 4 One<br />

4 See Wingfield 1992a, 48–51.<br />

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