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Petr Bazala - life and work
Míč, Miroslav ; MALÝ, František (advisor) ; KASÍK, Martin (referee)
This thesis intoduce us with a successful composer and personality. First part is about his life
– youth, studies, interests, musical success, teaching the children. Second part is dedicate to
his work, full list of compositions with illustrations and analyses of choosen pieces, as well as
a CD recordings include.
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Personality of students in instrumental music education
Marečková, Kornélie ; MALÝ, František (advisor) ; KLÁNSKÝ, Ivan (referee)
This thesis attempts to clarify connections between psychological aspects of student personality and the quality of responses in special music education. It focuses on three factors: abilities, temperament and motivation. It extends to the field of psychology, pedagogy and didactics. The aim of this work is to gain deeper understanding of psychological characteristics of students which manifest in instrumental music education and the work aspires to improve the quality of individual approach in the teaching process.
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The interpretive tradition and analysis of the “Pan” by Vítězslav Novák
Brizhaneva, Tatiana ; BILINSKÁ, Kvitoslava (advisor) ; MALÝ, František (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is a comprehensive performing analysis of the program Tone Poem “Pan” op. 43 by Vítězslav Novák. This composition represents one of the pearls of the Czech piano repertoire, but very few pianists included it in their concert programs because of the duration and technical difficulties. However, thanks to its originality, richness of the harmonic and melodic resources and quality of the detailes, the piano music of Vítězslav Novák is worth to be performed at concert venues much more frequently. Using for her studies czech information sources mostly, such as monographs, sets of articles about Novák, Novák’s biographic notes, the author has tried to aggregate data on the idea of “Pan”, the composition process and to describe the outstanding performers of this unique cycle. Recordings made by František Maxián, František Rauch, Martin Vojtíšek, Margaret Fingerhut and Slovak Filharmonic Orchestra with Zdeněk Bílek have served as valuable materials for the comparative analysis of different interpretations of the piece. The author’s own observations that were made during her studying and performing the piece as well as a theoretical analysis are included.
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Alternative methods of treatment of professional diseases of pianists
Hasmanová, Adéla ; MALÝ, František (advisor) ; LEICHNER, Emil (referee)
Play on piano is one-sided movement activity. During this activity is burned our upper body mainly our arms and back. During overworking of particular part can get hurt the playing apparatus. Aim of this work is to map the most common diseases of pianists, to focus on symptoms and causations and mainly to find out options of alternative methods of treatment of professional diseases. Thesis will be focused on a detailed description of two methods – Feldenkrais method and Alexander technique.
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The Personality of Pierre-Laurent Aimard And His Influence On Post-war Piano Interpretation
Šupák, Michal ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (advisor) ; MALÝ, František (referee)
This thesis focuses on the personality of Pierre-Laurent Aimard – a pianist, who enjoys an internationally celebrated career and who is one of the most significant figures in the piano music of the second half of the twentieth century. He is closely linked to composers of Europe’s post-war avant-garde. The goal of the thesis is to depict his artistic life, his thoughts and opinions and their value for a contemporary pianists and also to describe his contribution by closely collaborating with leading composers of post-war era. The thesis also contains an analysis and comparison of Aimard's selected recordings of Gyorgy Ligeti's pieces, which were prepared in personal collaboration with the author.
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INTERPRETATION ASPECTS OF CHOPIN’S B MINOR SONATA
Czepa, Roman ; MALÝ, František (advisor) ; BILINSKÁ, Kvitoslava (referee)
The main aim of the thesis is to give a conclusive view of the current interpretation state of Frédéric Chopin’s sonata in B minor, op. 58. A brief formal analysis is provided as well as further study hints. The main part focuses on interpretation difficulties such as edition choice, composition style in contrast to interpretation approaches and fulfilment of the opus by famous pianists.
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Life and work of contemporary composer and pianist Adam Skoumal
Suchánková, Anežka ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (advisor) ; MALÝ, František (referee)
In this B.A. thesis, life and work of a Czech contemporary composer and pianist Adam Skoumal are discussed.The artist is introduced to its readers from his very musical onset making his way up until now. The thesis focuses on his musical language and style together with the description of his piano, violin, chamber, vocal and even children`s pieces work. Being also a piano virtuoso, his two piano compositions are thoroughly analysed - namely Variations on a folk song and Concerto no. 2 for piano and string orchestra. On these pieces the problematics of contemporary artists writing in traditional style and therefore of unwanted borrowing of older works and also the question of arrangements after being introduced to the public are all demonstrated.
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Ida Kelarová - life and contribution to the musical culture of the gipsy
Kačo, Tomáš ; KAHÁNEK, Ivo (advisor) ; MALÝ, František (referee)
The thesis describes the life of Ida Kelarova and captures part of her lifelong activity. It is not possible to show all of the important things that mrs. Kelarova hase done, so I will focus on those that I witnessed personally or those that I was part of. It is great honour to weite my work about mrs. Kelarova especially because I had the opportunity to work directly with her. Majority of this paper comes from personal discussions and experiences.
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History and Present of Prague Piano Trio-Ensembles
Raková, Iva ; MALÝ, František (advisor) ; TOMÁŠEK, Jiří (referee)
The core of this MA thesis is to map Prague piano trio-ensembles from the beginning of the 20th century up to nowadays. It deals with history of such ensembles like Czech and Smetana Trios including their contemporary successors; it mentions Suk, Foerster, Prague and New Prague Trios, trios containing the name of Antonín Dvořák in its title including new Dvořák Trio renamed from Trio Concertino. Neither renowned Guarneri Trio Prague nor younger ensembles, established in the 1990s and after 2000 (Trio ArteMiss, Kinsky Trio Prague, Orbis Trio i.e.), are absent in the list.
This thesis also explores history of the genre of piano trio from 18th century on, presents the way a pianist should work as a chamber player and touches also past and present Czech institutions and organizations supporting performing chamber music in our country. In connection with these aspect the thesis mentions also possibility of new MA studies of chamber music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Finally, the author considers current chamber local and international music industry and its influence on artistic work in a piano trio.
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