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The Choral and Cantata Compositions of Jan Dismas Zelenka in the Contex of Czech Music Emigration in the First Half of the 18th Century
Paličková, Jitka ; Stříteská, Leona (referee) ; Pecháček, Stanislav (advisor)
This thesis deals with work and life of Jan Dismas Zelenka and with Czech emigration of the first half of the 18th century as a specific part of Czech musical history as well as social history. In the first two chapters I tried to outline the development of musical production in Europe in the first half of the 18th century on the settings of political, ideological and social events. I focused on the same problems in the third chapter, but this time only within the Czech countries. The whole fourth chapter deals with Jan Dismas Zelenka's life and work. Zelenka was one of the eminent representative of the Czech music emigration of the first half of the 18th century in Dresden. I tried to show a full illustration of Zelenka's life and portrayal of his vocal and vocal-instrumental heritage. The examples provided can help to understand the musical expressions of the period that Zelenka used to express onomatopoeia.
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Choral Works of Emil Hradecký
Hánečková, Vendula ; Pecháček, Stanislav (referee) ; Stříteská, Leona (advisor)
This thesis deals with the figure of contemporary Czech composer Emil Hradecký with a special respect to choral compositions. In the first chapter the author introduces Emil Hradecký as a mUSlC teacher, composer and publisher. In the following chapter she describes Hradecký's music work in general, inc1uding his methodological handbooks and instructive pieces. The core of the thesis is the part which focuses on Hradecký's choral works. It contains a complete list of his choral works and analysis of several works which il1ustrate his various compositional styles. The significance of this thesis is in its survey of Hradecký's choral works, especially due to the fact that a monograph about this composer has not been published yet. The author hopes that this thesis might contribute to extending of the general knowledge about this composer.
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Spiritual Music in Pentecostal Church in Nowdays Context
Tesárková, Marie ; Nedělka, Michal (referee) ; Stříteská, Leona (advisor)
The subject of this thesis is Spiritual music of Apostolic church today. The aim of the thesis was to write history of music in the Apostolic church in the Czech Republic, to show its historical and spiritual roots and its possible future trends. This thesis is not written only for members of this church but for everyone, who is interested in spiritual music in general. The main emphasis of Christian music is not on melody but on every word. Personal attitude and approach is vital. For these reasons it is important to know the origin of music in the world and its historical development. That is why this project is divided into three parts. The first part speaks about history of the Apostolic church, its creed and about a form of its church service. It is important to understand that before we go on to talk about songs and music styles used in this church. The second part speaks about music in the Bible which should be a pattern for each church in these days. We can realize that people in every time praised God with all of their hearts and their songs were full of deep respect for and joy in God. Christianity has been a bearer of this tradition. The Apostolic church is a protestant church and that is the reason why this thesis is focused on history of protestant churches and their music. The main...
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Saxophone and Its Role in Jazz Music
Gonata, Elena ; Pecháček, Stanislav (advisor) ; Stříteská, Leona (referee)
Adolphe Sax was an important figure in Jazz history, as it was proven throughout the years. By constructing the saxophone he wanted to balance the brass, woodwinds and strings sound. Adolphe Sax aimed to provide with a sound between the brass trumpet and the woodwind clarinet, which he succeeded. He constructed the saxophone for two families where each family is parted by seven instruments - the 'Orchestral Family' for which the instruments are in the keys of C&F, and in extent the 'Military Band Family' for which the instruments are in the keys of E-Flat & B-Flat (transposing instruments). Hector Berlioz was the first personality who was impressed by the saxophone and in extent promoted it within an interview he gave to the Paris magazine 'Journal de Débats'. Many composers of the time used the sax in their compositions.
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Jan Antonín Reichenauer - Church music with Regards to Litanies
Semerád, Vojtěch ; Stříteská, Leona (referee) ; Hurníková, Kateřina (advisor)
8. Summary Jan Antonin Reichenauer was a prominent Prague composer in the first third of the eighteenth century. Although church music forms a fundamental part of his compositional output, he was also a renowned composer of instrumental works. Liturgical compositions, masses, motets, offertories, sacred arias, litanies and vespers, frequently inaccurately marked with the name of the composer (Reichenaur, Reichenau), were performed by church choirs both in Prague and beyond. In addition to Czech music collections and archives (the Prague Castle Archive, the Music Collection ofthe Knights of the Cross with the Red Star, compositions from monastery collections assembled in the Czech Museum of Music) many instrumental compositions have been preserved in Dresden, Wiesentheid, Darmstadt and Vratislav. Reichenauer's work was influenced by the Neopolitan School of the first half of the eighteenth century, particularly by the works ofF. Durant a D. Sarr. Very little is known about his life. I found a lot of information in the church records of christenings and deaths in Prague's Little Quarter. Evidence of his activities in Prague as a composer of instrumental and church music in the aristocratic ensemble of Count Vac1av Morzin dates from about the year 1723. Concurrently with his position as composer to the...
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Chamber Music by Terezín Composers
Bartošová, Marie ; Stříteská, Leona (referee) ; Nedělka, Michal (advisor)
The output of the composers coming from Terezfn has arisen from a very specific background, based on both historical and sociocultural pOints of view. Ghetto Terezin, in its final solution of Jewish issue, stood for the place of an accumulating concentration camp designed as a final solution for the Jewish people living in the nazi-occupied countries. The Jews being kept under the Nazis' control, had to carry out various orders and they were treated in a very cruel way. The music culture originated here absolutely illegally but later, when the international organizations expressed its interest in the situations in concentration camps, the Nazis started to "beautify" ghetto for the committee's eyes. The majority of music works comes from the music orchestras needs to obtain some musical scores which was got rid of by the arrival in the concentration camp. Therefore the new music works are mostly only chamber music or choruses. All these music works are written for the same purpose - to interpret hopes to all auditors - co-prisoners. It was just music, paintings and literature presenting in daily life, which helped prisoners to remain as human as possible. Among the musicians imprisoned in Terezin were for example Karel Ancerl, Karel Berman, Pavel Hass, Hans Krasa, Gideon Klein, Karel Reiner, Rafael...
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Choral Works by Jan Bůžek
Holubcová, Tereza ; Stříteská, Leona (referee) ; Pecháček, Stanislav (advisor)
In the diploma work on "Sborova tvorba Jana Buzka" author give information about the life of the composer and devotes the arrangement of his composition for women and children choir, which devides into following categories: choir on the texts of folk poetry, choir on the ancient chinese and ancient japanese poetry, choir on the texts of J.Y. Sladek and choir on the poetry of other authors. Compositions, which are used in this diploma work weren 't, as a whole, published so far. For better understanding and use of Buzek's production, author analyses selected composition. The author firstly focuses on the harmonic and formal aspekt. Author pays attention to the technique of Buzek's composition and his use of modern methods. Author supportes this with a note extract processed in a computer program Sibelius4. As the supplement, the author presents a list of all well-preserved compositions for women and children choir, further then the whole version of individual compositions for practical use on atached CD, where it is possible to listen to every individual composition in electronic version and therefore get better idea of their sound form.
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Songs Development in Evangelic Church
Rychnovská, Eva ; Nedělka, Michal (referee) ; Stříteská, Leona (advisor)
Diploma thesis Development of song production in The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren involves in its introduction part the historical context of The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren formation and its musical heritage. The main part of the thesis is concerned with the influence of different phenomenons that participated in the creation and formalization of the church songs. Not only general environmental influences, historical epoch or artistic style, but also specific music system elements can be found in these songs, this substance is described in the second part. A number of songs from evangelical hymn-book illustrates the specific impact of individual factors. There are six fields subjectively selected for analyzing the topic in terms of contemporary evangelical church music and church service in the chapter Song analysis. This part contains 12 comprehensive analyses of evangelical songs.
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Elias
Hasmanová, Petra ; Valášek, Marek (referee) ; Stříteská, Leona (advisor)
Theme of this diploma work is Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Elijah. Introductory chapter is dedicated to a composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his biography. This oratorio Elijah is lined up to a wide context of composer`s production. Succesive chapter "Libretto" tells a story about prophet Elijah and refer to relevant chapters the First and the Second Kings in the Old Testament which contents this story. Common characterization formal part of oratorio Elijah sets out chapter precede fundamental chapter "Analysis oratorio Elijah". Analysis of each oratorio parts are pursued mainly from point of view both harmony musical express and text. This diploma work is closed by chapter contains small notes concerning interpretation problems
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