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Mathematics and Music: Connections
Hlinka, Suzanna ; Toperczer, Peter (advisor) ; Vlasáková, Alena (referee)
The prime intention of this paper is an attempt to illuminate the interconnectedness of Mathematics and Music through identifying in music, predominantly piano music, some mathematical characteristics. Furthermore, it will prove that there are these connections and similarities between the two disciplines by showing that composers used mathematics in subtle and unsubtle ways to create musical compositions that have unity and structure to be pleasing and to endure. As well as examining fundamental mathematical elements not only in relation to the piano and its works, the paper will investigate topics such as the History of Mathematics and Music, Mathematics in musical composition, Fibonacci series, Golden Section, computer composition, and works of diverse styles by composers such as Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Bartók, Hindemith, Schönberg, Berg, Webern, Xenakis and more.
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Polonaises and waltzes of Fryderik Chopin
Klinderová, Jana ; Malý, František (advisor) ; Vlasáková, Alena (referee) ; Klánský, Ivan (referee)
This work was inspired by Fryderic Chopin´s dancing forms, which make substantial part of his work. The main part of this work is dedicated to polonaises and waltzes, evaulation of their position in Chopin´s work, their characteristic as forms with describing of their origin and evolution. Important article is further listing of these polonaises and waltzes with outlining circumstances of their composition so as the listing of issue dates. The subject of my work was choosen because of my warm relationship with Chopin as a composer, when the main intension was to show and outline some charakteristics of Chopin´s compositional style at examples such these type of miniatures - polonaises and waltzes.
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Kapr, Robert ; Leichner, Emil (advisor) ; Šimonková, Dagmar (referee) ; Vlasáková, Alena (referee)
About establishing and development of Russian national music in the 19th Century. Importance of St. Peterburg Composer School and the Mighty Handful. Portrait of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky as a young romantic and patriotic human being and as a composer. His contribution to the World´s cultural heritage, highlighting of the similarities to French impressionists and Leoš Janáček. Pictures At an Exhibition as an integral part of the World´s piano repertoire.
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Pianist´s talent developing
Tichá, Libuše ; Tichý, Vladimír (advisor) ; Vlasáková, Alena (referee) ; Pavlovská, Jana (referee)
Talent is one of the basic requirements for being interpret. It is one of variety of factors affecting, forming and consequently developing interpretative process. Care for talent is integrial part of musically interpretative art. Talent is determined by inborn and hereditary abilities aswell as by surrounding influences and upbringing. There are few signs of talent - general musicalness, physiological and anatomical properties, and abilites such as ear for music, sense for rhythm, sense for complex percepting music, etc. Piano talent is also connected to the piano play elaboration. We can notice advencement of one´s music abilities through process of mind developement since birth until adulthood. According to modern psychology, we focus on development of skills and abilities important for musicaly interpretative work or auditory imagination, motoric inteligence, coordination between hearing and movement, form imagination, semiotic thinking, aesthetic sense, discipline, etc. One of the most important factors during the process of developing one´s talent is a teacher. At first, the teacher has to focus on discovering and uncovering student´s talent, afterwards on it´s creative development. The interpretative work concepted as a game should be followed by interpretative guidance leading into an achievemnt - expression of music piece. During this period, the teacher targets at evolving student´s natural creativity while forming music imagination, score reading and explication, specification of the piano sound and the piano technique, metodics for practice. The final goal is to reach phase of fully developed piano thinking as a specific area of general music thinking. Piano thinking, as we understand it, includes synthesis of all the mental components of piano talent. Specific expresions of developed piano thinking are noticable through playing performed by mature artists. They intervene in compositional skills as well - especially in case of music composers who dwell on piano playing. The piano literature benefits from such personalities for they thoroughly respect the piano play specifics.
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Music Department - Grammar school of Jan Neruda
Malá, Michaela ; Klánský, Ivan (advisor) ; Vlasáková, Alena (referee)
This work deals with a study programme at the Grammar school of Jan Neruda - classes with a music direction, which has started almost fourteen years ago.
This work makes readers acquainted with this form of education and the fields of study at this school. It also addresses the difficulties beeing put on students and the posibillities beeing given to young people who want to be educated in music art. You can read about the history and what brought about this programme as well as understand how succesfull students are when they try to do an exam to universities focused on music.
The paper talks deeply about daily life at Grammar School of Jan Neruda. It also deals with the question; what type of student is this shool the best for? It is based on the experiences of the writer, Michaela Malá, who spent eight years at this school.
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