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Harp and its usage in opera works
Jouzová, Kamila ; BOUŠKOVÁ, Jana (advisor) ; Brateljević, Ana (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on the use of harp in opera works. In the first part, there is a brief history of this musical instrument and its development from the early harps to taday´s pedal ones commonly used in orchestras. Following is a selection of twelve influential Czech and world opera composers by whom is listed their opera works considered influential here or abroad or thanks to their innovative use of harp. In the analysis of each work, there is some basic information about the author, the storyline of the opera and extracts of the harp parts with explanatory notes.
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Czech contemporary compo
Hrachovinová, Hana ; BOUŠKOVÁ, Jana (advisor) ; Brateljević, Ana (referee)
This thesis concerns Czech contemporary composition for harp, specifically the solos, chamber music and concertos by Czech composers. It describes the current state of research - four diploma theses written on the Czech contemporary repertoire. This thesis presents certain authors who have written works for harp - P. Eben, J.F.Fischer, I. Loudová, Z. Matějů, L. Matoušek, K. Slavická a P. Zemek giving their brief biography, enlisting their works with harp and mainly presenting interviews with the composers concerning their attitude to harp and their methods of dealing with the specific technical features of harp.I give more information about the structure or creation background of selected pieces. The analytic chapter gives the comparison of different approaches to harp in the work of the selected composers. The background for this comparison is mainly the interviews with the comopsers or my own konwledge of their pieces. The integral part of the thesis is also a large table of the contemporary Czech composition for harp, placed in the appendix.
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An unknown Manuscript for a Harp by Elias Parish Alvars in the czech Muzeum of Music
Carrara, Simona ; BOUŠKOVÁ, Jana (advisor) ; RAK, Štěpán (referee)
Until now among the works catalogue of the harpist and composer Elias Perish Alvars there was no trace of a composition called " Grande Fantasie sur des Airs Nationaux Anglais" for solo harp. We have found it in the library archive of the Czech Museum of Music in Prague: it is a manuscript autographed by the composer, dated 1843 and never publishe before.The main section of the dissertation regards the manuscript itself. The studying of it has been faced from a formal, harmonic, stylistic and historic point of view. After an introduction about the "Fantasia" every air is examined in detail, without leaving out the historic information behind every section. The most important part is then the critical edition of the manuscript that respects very carefully all the indications made by Parish Alvars in person.After a section to the enchanting figure of the composer, his life, works and the period he had lived in, the work gives references also to the double action pedal harp that had the main role in the harp music harp since its patent of 18140. The "Grande Fantasie" interesting discovery is composition and we are glad to present it in this dissertation work.
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