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of role in Jenůfa, yet one which goes beyond what Mahler could reasonably have
intended for his sleigh bells — chiefly in that the scenic and dramatic dimension of
the operatic work serves to endow it with an expressive power and a tension out of all
proportion to its timbre as such. Indeed, in its combination of naturalistic
representation, regional association and symbolism, together with the more ominous
underlying layers of reference, the instrument can in many ways be taken as a
metaphor for the opera as a whole. Moreover, its wider resonances include a twenty-
first-century one that Janáček himself could not possibly have foreseen: a marimba cb'
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