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Ex. 2.7<br />

Articulation and phrasing<br />

Editorial articulation marks are indicated by small type; editorial phrasing and slurs<br />

are shown by broken slurs. Rationalisation <strong>of</strong> articulation and phrasing has been<br />

consciously limited to those cases which seem most to demand identical or parallel<br />

treatment. In evaluating individual cases, regard has been given to varying contexts,<br />

and to the various techniques and characteristics <strong>of</strong> different instruments.<br />

Occasionally, too, Janáček calls for what appears to be deliberately contrastive<br />

articulation, as in the following example (Ex. 2.8): such instances have not been<br />

standardised.<br />

Ex. 2.8<br />

Vocal phrasing slurs<br />

For the most part, ŠFS and ŠVS use slurs in the voice parts in the modern<br />

conventional manner, to indicate two or more notes sung to a single syllable <strong>of</strong> text.<br />

Occasionally, however, they are also used to bind together a multi-syllable phrase, as<br />

in the following example (Ex. 2.9) from Act 3, where the legato phrase mark seems<br />

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