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Jenůfa’s cheek is slashed, but also removed something that, even in 1904, must have
seemed a distinct throwback in harmonic terms. The cut of a further twenty bars
between figures 118c and 119 meant that the passage from Laca’s menacing ‘Tenhle
křivák by ti je mohl pokazit’ (This knife could ruin them [i.e. Jenůfa’s cheeks] for
you) to Jenůfa’s terrified cry of ‘Ježíš, Maria!’, which in 1904 had taken up a total of
52 bars, was now over in a mere eleven (Ex. 3.32b).
Ex. 3.32a
Ex.3.32b
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