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Women of important composers, involved in music
Chvalová, Viola ; Palkovská, Jana (advisor) ; Tichá, Libuše (referee)
In this thesis, I summarize the personal and professional profiles of a selection of musically active women who lived alongside prominent composers. These are six women artists from the Baroque to the 20th century. In each chapter, a different element of their lives became the focus of my interest. Sometimes, given the paucity of reliable sources of information (especially in relation to the Baroque period), this is merely a summary of hypotheses, sometimes I focus more on the professional side of the personality, and sometimes on personal and family matters. The thesis deals with sections of music history with which the general public is not so familiar and yet which I suppose deserve to be known. I focus on the virtuoso of the seventeenth-century harpsichordist Marie-Rose Dubois, who, alongside her husband J. B. Forqueray, was a concert artist, the singer and important creator of the Bach manuscripts Anna Magdalena Bachová, the outstanding singer of the classical period Josefina Dušková, the wife of the Czech composer F. X. Dušek. I also deal with the harpist and composer Sophie Corri-Dussek, wife of the musical bohemian J. L. Dusik, the most important 19th century pianist Clara Schumann and the opera singer Berta Lauterer, partner of the Czech composer J. B. Foerster. There are, of course, many...
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The tone scale as the basic technical ability of pianist
Hanžlíková Krafová, Viktoria ; Palkovská, Jana (advisor) ; Tichá, Libuše (referee)
The thesis called "Scales as a Basis of Technical Skills of a Pianist" deals with the problem of scales and scale complex playing at all levels of piano playing education. It introduces some inspiring rules of piano pedagogy and their usage in a systematic practice of scales. The work is divided into eight chapters, each of them is devoted to certain technical exercises connected to both diatonic and chromatic scales. A great attention is paid to chords, melodic chords and playing of scales in duets. Each chapter contains practical examples and fingering systems. According to its scale of interest, the thesis is aimed at teachers and students of secondary schools and universities.
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Klement Slavický and his piano music for children
Honzová, Miroslava ; Tichá, Libuše (advisor) ; Palkovská, Jana (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with instructive solo piano pieces by Klement Slavický. In the first chapter, a brief biography of the composer is presented. The second chapter is concerned with his piano cycles for children which includes the following cycles: On the Whites and Blacks, Piano and Youth, 12 Small Studies, At Home with the Piano, and Amoroso. The third chapter contains pedagogical and interpretative approach to the selected pieces from the aforementioned cycles. In this chapter, chosen practise procedure of the selected pieces, ways of dealing with the performance and technical issues as well as insights of the individual pupils are also presented. The fourth chapter contains the results of my questionnaire survey, the purpose of which was to find out the frequency of teachers' incorporation of Slavický's pieces into the pupils' repertoire, the compositions performed the most frequently, the ways pupils cope with his music as well as the teachers' own view of Slavický's personality and his music. The third and the fourth chapter also include some generally applicable didactic principles as well as author's personal observations that she considered important to mention. The aim of the thesis is to delve deeper into Klement Slavický's work for solo piano intended for children primarily...
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Virtuosity in the etudes of Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff
Pivoňková, Amálie ; Gregor, Vít (advisor) ; Tichá, Libuše (referee)
The bachelor thesis Virtuosity in the etudes of Fryderyk Chopin, Ferenc Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff deals with the study of virtuosity and virtuoso elements in the etudes of Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff. The work first explains what piano virtuosity is and what it consists of. Based on this, the following chapters of the above-mentioned composers are examined and analyzed in the following chapters, as an ideal example of virtuosity. Chopin's Etudes are divided according to the issues that dominate them. Liszt's and Rachmaninov's etudes are not divided according to the issue, as they are more complex. They often contain a combination of multiple problems, and it is difficult to determine which one prevails. Despite the fact that they are not divided, they are treated in the same way as Chopin's etudes. According to the specific problems, the work finds out how to practice the etude and what pitfalls need to be overcome for the interpretation to be successful. At the beginning of the chapter, the author outlines the life destinies of the above composers. Thanks to a brief introduction of each of them, it is easier to understand the way in which each of them composed and what is characteristic of their creation. The thesis emphasizes that virtuosity is not just a technical matter, but a summary of...
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