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The first four lines of this title page (Její pastorkyňa […] hudba Leoše Janáčka.) are
in Janáček’s hand on a blank label pasted over the original inscription (in Štross’s
hand): Klavírní výtah. [vocal score]. This seems to have been a mistake on Štross’s
part: not only does his own Partitura. [full score] cancel out Klavírní výtah., but ŠVS
has its own title page, also in Štross’s hand; and the ŠFS title page is on the same
twenty-stave manuscript paper as the following pages of full score, whilst the ŠVS
title page is on twelve-stave paper like its continuation. On the verso of this title page,
in Štross’s hand, are descriptions of the situations of the three characters onstage at the
beginning of Act 1 (Jenůfa, Stařenka and Laca).
The music of Act 1 follows on numbered folios (original numbering in left-
hand column; right-hand column shows the numbering used in this commentary):
1–140 1–140
1–63 141–203
[64]: blank 204
The restart of foliation after fol. 140 coincides with the beginning of Scene 6 (‘Výstup
7’ in Janáček’s numbering; see §2.4, Scene numbers), an indication that this bulky tome
was originally split into two more manageable volumes. The pages have also been cut
down from their original size, something evident from the many folio numbers that
have been partly or wholly cropped. In the score’s present state, folios 123 and 124 have
been misbound in reverse order (i.e. fol. 124 precedes fol. 123), a confusion compounded
by the fact that fol. 124 has been folded forward and glued to itself, so that the folio
number on the recto is no longer showing. 8 Folios 189 and 190 are glued together. 9
8 These two folios correspond to I/v/378–89, the middle section of the much-cut ensemble ‘A vy,
muzikanti’; fol. 124r (glued shut) corresponds to I/v/384–6.
9 The hidden folios — 189v and 190r — contain music that originally came between I/vii/202 and 203
in the present reconstruction.
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