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Symphonic Band in Reflection of Czech Music of the 2nd half of the 20th Century
Blahunek, Václav ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bajgar, Radek (referee) ; Vičar, Jan (referee) ; Hanzal, Miroslav (referee)
The Dissertation is focused on features of the symphonic wind band, especially its sound, dynamics and aesthetics. The first part shortly describes history of the Czech wind bands and compares contemporary posture of symphonic wind background in the CZ and abroad as well. Discovery of wind band?s features was supported also by the Czech composers, who found this medium appropriate to express their musical language. The second chapter brings formal, compositional and interpretative analysis of representative samples of six the Czech symphonic wind band pieces of music that was composed during the 2nd part of the 20th century. Centroid of that music came from the Czech composers staying in the USA such as K. B. Jirák, Václav Nelhybel and Karel Husa. The Aria - the second movement of Music for Prague 1968 is analysed globally. Particular specification of orchestration and interpretation are focused from conductor?s point of view and there is close relationship with methodology of work with symphonic wind band and specific theory of interpretation. The Dissertation has not been terminated, it aims to the future with emphasis to provoke activity toward phenomenon of the Symphonic band music in all levels, compositional and interpretative.
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Tintinnabuli - Compositional style of Arvo Pärta
Hájek, Michal ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Svárovský, Leoš (referee)
Arvo Pärt,an estonian composer born in 1935, is very original person at the field of clasiccal music. This bachelor thesis is devoted to his musoc, especially to his own composition method called tintinnabuli. When Arvo Pärt was 32 years old, he stopped composing at all and he started to look for completely new way of writing music. After eight years he came out with this new very personal style. The first chapter is biographical. I write about life of Arvo Pärt and about his compositions. The second chapter is aimed to the tintinnabuli style - there is description of musical and unmusical sources for this style and the explanation of the basic composition principles.In the third chapter there are few examples of Pärts using of tintinnabuli in his compositions. Every example is commented and illustrated with sample from the score. In the text there are also many quotations os Pärts own ideas and life- philosophy opinions.
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Instrumental retouche in the Czech orchestral practice
Bubák, Jan ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Olivieri-Munroe, Charles (referee)
The aim of this thesis is not to give an ultimate judgment about retouches and alterings that conductors can make to a score but to create a clear overview. This means summarizing all means how the original score is manipulated without changing the denotational picture of it. First of all, the processes that can be applied to a score are being categorized. The survey is helping to defina what could be understood under the term "retouch". Any other alterings should be considered not as retouch but as an arrangement. The analyzed score material comprises classical to mid 20th century repertoire. This thesis explores the useof retouches with regard to historical development of orchestral style. Futhermore the scanning field is limited to the Czech orchestral practice. In the mext chapters the most frequent retouches are analyzed. The author ztries to give reasons why these are considered as a part of our´orchestral tradition´or if it is something that belongs to the past and should be revised again. The thesis is also searching for reasons that led the conductors to introduce these retouches.
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Reconstructing St Mark Passion by J.S.Bach
Jouza, Vojtěch ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Štryncl, Marek (referee)
In the present work, I describe the process of my reconstructing St Mark Passion BWV of Johann Sebastian Bach. I carried out this reconstruction in 2006 - 2007 and presented it at the concert held as part of Czech Philharmonic chamber series on 3rd April 2007 in the Dvořák Hall of the Prague Rudolfinum. The initial chapters of my work deal with the development of the passoin form before Bach and passions composed by Bach´s contemporaries. The next part of the work looks at the context of St Mark Passion among other passion compositions by J.S.Bach. Last but not least, attention is paid to other reconstructions of this work realised by musicologists and musicians in the past.
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L. Janáček: Suite from the opera The cunning vixen
Klecker, Jakub ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Micka, Vít (referee)
My diploma work focuses on several interesting aspects of the Janáček-SUITE from the opera The cunning vixen. In the first chapters we can learn about the origins of the whole opera. The suite is analyzed from the historical point of view as a musical form that developed and changed in each typical period in some way.
The core of my work builds upon the analysis of three versions of the piece ? the ones of Talich, Jílek and Mackerras, which together with Jílek´s version respects Janáček´s original. Talich on the contrary embarks in a new instrumentation which becomes a different composition. I can see the differencies between the particular scores especially in the field of thematic material, the orchestra-cast, part and also in tectonic, metric, dynamic and movement field.
Important parts are shown in several picture examples. Lastly I present three records for comparison that I try to describe from a musical reviewer´s point of view.
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Non-professional Choirs Of Plzeň County
Vorlíček, Marek ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Mátl, Lubomír (referee)
Choir singing which has for sure a strong tradition in Bohemia gets back ( at least in western Bohemia) to the forefront of musical public again.Why is it so,why was it in the past, and what are their conditions in in our society - these are the main themes of this work. In constituent chapters I will talk about the activities and repertoire of each on of choirs, about their present problems, I will get through their strong and weik points. These will help me to find general conclusions about some of the problems of choir singing in Plzeň region.
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The work with an amateur and professional choire
Vasilek, Lukáš ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Chvála, Jiří (referee)
This diploma thesis called "The work with an amateur and professional choir"
combines reflective practice and theoretical knowledge of the choirmasters`
profession. This work is entirely original in its` context, the author has used his
own experiences working with professional and amateur choirs (e.g. The Prague
Philharmonic Choir, choir of the National Theatre in Prague and The Foerster
Female Chamber Choir). The thesis has the following themes: The personality of
the choirmaster, The selection of singers, Vocal training, Study of the repertoire.
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Detailed analysis of the three last great Mozart Symphonies
Štilec, Marek ; Koutník, Tomáš (advisor) ; Olivieri-Munroe, Charles (referee)
This bachelor work deals with a detailed analysis of the three last great Mozart Symphonies with the emphasis on the Symphony in G minor, K.V. 550. Attention is drawn to the Urtext edition, the condoctor's way of interpretation, performance, instrumental differences, dynamics, phrasing etc. Considerable space is devoted at the beginning to the problems of authentic interpretation, the historical in practice and to some of the pitfalls involved in a dogmatic approach.
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