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1904 bn 2 [OP] OPx
title page and Úvod (double-sided) → glued reinforcement to db stage band part (1916)
end of Act 1 (single-sided) → verso of db stage band part (1916)
end of Act 2 (single-sided) → verso of bass cl part (1916)
The cor anglais and bass clarinet parts are written respectively into the oboe 2 and
clarinet 2 parts. All the percussion music (including the ‘onstage’ xylophone) is
written into the timpani part.
All the OP parts contain the independent orchestral introduction (Úvod),
although there are no signs — such as performance annotations — to indicate that this
was ever used in performances of the opera in Brno. 23 They also all contain various
layers of revision, often extensive. The string parts are least altered, the woodwind,
brass and percussion parts more thoroughly reworked with erasures, recopying and
paste-overs in line with Janáček’s revisions of 1907–8. The OP harp part contains the
most extensive changes, incorporating all layers of revision including those of
Kovařovic in 1916 (the part had been taken over into OPx and remained in use long
after all the others — including the stage band and percussion — had been recopied).
LB Manuscript libretto copied by ‘Kostka’, dated 25/26 October 1903; police
censor’s permission dated 16 November 1903 and annotations by Janáček;
black textured stiff paper cover (blank white on reverse) with black cloth
spine, end papers (1 blank bifolium) and 72 pages (17 ruled bifolia), 204mm ×
161mm, BmJA, L7.
23 See CHAPTER 1, fn. 18. The Úvod is also included in the orchestral parts copied later, in 1906, 1911
and 1913–14; see below, ‘OPx’.
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