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Fig. 2.8 LB, 38 (detail): beginning <strong>of</strong> Act 3 Scene 2 (the Mayor’s entrance), showing word<br />

repetitions that help in identifying the 1904 version <strong>of</strong> this passage (see CHAPTER 3, Ex. 3.39).<br />

Reproduced by courtesy <strong>of</strong> the Moravian Regional Museum, Brno.<br />

corrections and other alterations, and several (<strong>of</strong>ten elaborate) doodles. At the beginnings<br />

<strong>of</strong> Acts 1 and 2 are added in pencil the words ‘Krátká hudba’ [lit. ‘brief music’] indicating<br />

the orchestral introduction before the action commences; and at the corresponding place at<br />

the head <strong>of</strong> Act 3, ‘Delší hudba’ [‘longer music’]. Towards the end <strong>of</strong> each Act, a pair <strong>of</strong><br />

hand-drawn bells (I and II) were probably used to cue a remote alert for backstage or<br />

front-<strong>of</strong>-house staff that the Act ending was imminent (see Fig. 2.9; see also ŠVS above).<br />

Textual corrections include, in the Kostelnička’s Act 1 aria, a change from ‘Aji on byl<br />

žlutohřívý’ [recte ‘žlutohřivý’: Ah, he was yellow-haired] to ‘Aji on byl zlatohřívý’ [recte<br />

‘zlatohřivý’: Ah, he was golden-haired]. 26<br />

Among the more notable changes is an alteration to the wording <strong>of</strong> the big Act<br />

1 ensemble (led by Stařenka), from ‘Každý párek si musí svoje trápení přestát’ [Every<br />

couple must weather its own troubles] to ‘Každý člověk si musí […]’ [Every one/man<br />

26 LB, 12; ŠVS has ‘žlutohřivý’, ŠFS ‘zlatohřívý’, and PL (Preissová’s printed drama) ‘žlutohřívý’.<br />

39

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