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on the fateful night she killed Jenůfa’s baby. <strong>The</strong> jettisoning <strong>of</strong> the 1904 version’s<br />

agitated string demisemiquavers at the moment she describes her sensations on<br />

drowning the child (‘Bylo to večer’, fig. 61) in favour <strong>of</strong> the sustained harmonics <strong>of</strong><br />

1908 is one <strong>of</strong> the most chillingly effective <strong>of</strong> the many inspired changes that Janáček<br />

made prior to publication <strong>of</strong> the vocal score. A similarly comprehensive reworking<br />

was made <strong>of</strong> the beginning <strong>of</strong> the following scene, where Jenůfa, in a conciliatory<br />

gesture, bids her stepmother to stand up. <strong>The</strong> thickly-scored, rather foursquare 1904<br />

setting <strong>of</strong> this passage (Ex. 3.25a), with the voice doubled by cor anglais, clarinets and<br />

violas, and repeated string demisemiquaver chords reinforced by flutes and bassoons,<br />

was replaced in 1908 by a much more transparent texture: the original melody now the<br />

sole preserve <strong>of</strong> Jenůfa’s rhythmically freer vocal line, bright pianissimo E major<br />

sustained chords substituted for the previous sombre B flat minor leanings, and the<br />

reaching-over motif originally introduced only at fig. 68 now anticipated in bassoons,<br />

cellos and clarinet (Ex. 3.25b).<br />

Ex. 3.25a<br />

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