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Ex. 2.4b
However much more practicable the revision is, it is inter alia precisely in such
changes that the significance of Janáček’s subsequent revisions (in the form of cuts
and practical improvements) resides. Thus, whilst making necessary editorial
emendations, I have not sought to pre-empt either Janáček’s own changes or the
improvements of later editors. Footnotes give details of the more significant variant
readings in the sources.
Layout
For the sake of clarity, the present edition gives just one full-score system per page.
However, the system divisions follow as closely as is practicable those of UE 1996 in
order to facilitate comparison between versions.
Scene numbers
Unlike many of Janáček’s later operas, there are no physical changes of scene within
each Act of Jenůfa. Instead Janáček, like Preissová, employs the classical convention
of new scenes according to the entrance or exit of characters (výstup is in this sense
the Czech equivalent of the German Auftritt). Janáček retained Preissová’s
numbering, although his omission of some scenes from the play means that, in ŠFS,
ŠVS and KPU, there are several ‘double’ scene numbers in Acts 1 and 2. These have
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