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Ex. 3.12
3.3.2 Textural alterations
Janáček’s 1907/8 cuts (most of them clearly legible in both ŠFS and ŠVS) have, like
the alterations to the vocal lines (see below, §3.3.4), received a good deal of attention
in the past, notably in the various studies by Štědroň and Tyrrell. Yet just as
important at this stage of the revision process were his many wide-ranging changes to
the opera’s musical textures, which amount to not merely a bringing into focus of
existing ideas, but also very often a highly distinctive transformation of the work’s
soundworld. Because many of these changes were effected with particular
thoroughness in the manuscript sources, they have tended, necessarily, to be
overlooked until now. The possibility of comparing the reconstructed 1904 score with
the 1908 version in this especial respect affords new insights into an important aspect
of the opera’s transformation at this stage.
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