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Tempo markings
Tempo markings are Janáček’s own for the opera in its 1904 version, as are the
metronome marks added by him to ŠFS and ŠVS, probably before the copying of OP.
In those places where tempo indications appear to have been added after the copying
of OP, but may apply to the 1904 version, they are given in parentheses. Editorial
suggestions or clarifications are given in square brackets.
Beaming
The original beaming is often contradictory, both between and even within ŠFS and
ŠVS. It has been standardised except in those cases where it seems to reinforce either
the sense of phrasing or articulation within a passage, or the motivic sense. 53 In this
respect (as in others) the present edition differs from UE 1969 and UE 1996/2000.
Thus, for example, in Act 1 Scene 5 the oboe beaming at bar 4 — Ex. 2.6(a) below —
enhances the motivic reading of the passage, although it contradicts ‘correct’
notational practice (b):
Ex. 2.6
In Act 2 Scene 2, the use of tails rather than beaming in clarinet 1 and violin 2 at fig.
19 (Ex. 2.7) serves to reinforce the articulation in that bar, distinguishing it from the
unaccented continuation:
53 On the significance of beaming in revealing the underlying rhythmic unit (‘scelovací sčasovka’) of a
given passage in Janáček’s theoretical work on rhythm, see HTD ii, 70.
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