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The phenomenon of Tarantism and the traditional musical and dancing style of Pizzica in the south-italian region of Puglia
Kobyláková, Irena ; Traxler, Jiří (referee) ; Tyllner, Lubomír (advisor)
The diploma work called The Phenomenon of Tarantism and the Traditional Musical and Dancing style of Pizzica in the South-Italian Region of Puglia by BcA. Irena N. Kobyláková analyses two basic cultural topics typical for the South-Italian region of Puglia from ethnological point of view, tarantism and pizzica, which complement each other. In the first part the author treats the process of tarantism, i.e. of a psychosomatic disease which was healed by musical and dance therapy in a frenetic rhythm of pizzica created by drumming on a tambourine. The work analyses the causes of the disease, which are symbolically substituted by a poisonous spider, reveals the process and the therapy of the disease, the relationship of an afflicted person to the mythical spider, as well as to Saint Paul, the patron of the poisoned. The second half of the work involves a musical and dance analysis of tarantella of Salento called pizzica, namely its three kinds, the pizzica tarantata, the passionate pizzica and the gesticulated pizzica. This part is complemented by a report about the contemporary happenning, popularity and use of pizzica in Puglia. A report of own field research in the region, which took place during years 2003 - 2009 is part of the thesis as well. The purpose of the diploma work was to bring forth an issue...
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Czech social songbooks as a cultural phenomenon in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries
Svobodová, Věra ; Tyllner, Lubomír (advisor) ; Sochorová, Ludmila (referee)
This thesis is based on the catalogue of Czech social songbooks put together by the author in a form of a computer database for Department of Ethnomusicology, Ethnological Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences. Analyzis of these songbooks is complemented by taking research conducted in the past by wide range of scholars (E. Meliš, B Václavek, R. Smetana, M. O adlík, J. Plavec, V. Pletka, V. Karbusický, J. Kotek) into account. This provides basis for characterization of origin and developement of Czech social singing in the first half of the 19th century including characteristics of its key personalities (A. J. Puchmajer, J. J. Ryba, V. J. Tomášek, V. Hanka, F. M. Kníže, A. Jelen, J. K. Chmelenský, F. Škroup, F. L. elakovský, F. J. Vacek Kamenický, J. K. Tyl, V. J. Picek a K. Havlí ek Borovský) as well as characteristics of important publications (among others V nec ze zp v vlastenských, 1835-39, 1843-44). Following section provides an overview of the century long tradition of Czech social songbooks (1848-1948); the founding importance of Spole enský zp vník eský by J. B. Pichl (1851), later in musical cooperation with J. L. Zvona (1863) is highlighted. In the last chapter author thoroughly discusses the principles of the computer catalogue of songbooks and possibilities of its future use for other types of...
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Karel Weis and his sponsors
Tyllner, Lubomír
Many collections of Czech folk songs came into existence thanks to a sponsorship. Among them belongs also a fifteen-volume monument Southern Bohemia and Bohemian Forest in Songˇ(Český jih a Šumava v písni) from the 1st half of the 20th century by Czech composer Karel Weis.
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Ahead of its Time, or Small Visions Czech Folkloristics
Tyllner, Lubomír
The term vision has been understood differently, depending on its users, from artists, an politicians, to businesspeople. Visions used to be quickly overcome, or even unfulfilled. Some visions which wereahead of their time were used in research and scholarship corcennig Czech music as well (Regional Collecting Project 1819, Otakar Hostinský, Ludvík Kuba etc.).
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Funeral Ceremony Songs of the South Bohemian Blata in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Tyllner, Lubomír
The agricultural area of South Bohemia belongs to the regions where the steady advancement of industrialization created conditions for survival of continuous phenomenons of traditional culture, survival incomparably longer then in other regions. Up to the 1970s, in the region of Blata in South Bohemia had been kept a traditional funeral rite that in a great part contained of songs above the open coffin of the deceased.
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Traditional music - difficulties with definition
Tyllner, Lubomír
This study is concerned with the problem of how to define the traditional (folk) music which is, in the European space, the counterpart of art music. It adverts to various possible approaches to the problem, potential solutions or to the views adopted by numerous European and American scholars. The study also comments on the official definition of traditional music provided by the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) UNESCO
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