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The Harmonic Flute and Its Derivates in Carpathian Regions of the Czech Republic - an organological hologram
Šidlo Friedl, Marian ; Matoušek, Vlastislav (advisor) ; Kratochvíl, Matěj (referee) ; Garaj, Bernard (referee)
AND KEYWORDS The dissertation The Harmonic Flute and Its Derivatives in the Carpathian Regions of the Czech Republic - an organological hologram contains the summary, analysis and syntheses of data obtained through the research of little-known instrumental kind in this area of the Czech Republic. Most of the data is published for the first time in this range. In three chapters - Harmonic flute, Tradition, Present - the musical instrument is viewed from many perspectives. The harmonic flute is displayed as a part of worldwide and Carpathian instrumentary; its acoustic and playing features are explained, archaic manufacturing methods are shown and the possible influence on musical thinking of the area is discussed. The theses also investigates the harmonic flute and its derivatives as disappeared musical instruments of the local traditional music and tries to map contemporary revival of its manufacturing and playing. The dissertation is based on analysis of written, audio and visual documents, comparisons, experimental reconstructions, empirical evaluation of objects in museums and private collections and interviews with informants. The theses includes an extensive photo documentation and a CD with audio samples discussed in the text. This theses was inspired by models formulated by...
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Music in ritual. Ritual of Music.
Švandová, Michaela ; Tyllner, Lubomír (advisor) ; Traxler, Jiří (referee)
This dissertation deals with ritual and its connection to music. The objective of the research and the studies of selected rituals is to describe the relations between ritual and the music- dance elements within it. The dissertation focuses on musical expression. In the dissertation we describe a few traditional rituals from the European cultural heritage, and also some selected examples of secular ceremonies in relation to them. Sources of information include field research, studies of authentic ritual (filmed by Lubomír Tyllner), as well as specialist literature. The concept of "ritual" means, for us, a performance, a symbolic activity, the aim of which is to create and to consolidate social bonds, and to regulate, conserve and transmit social habits and manners. It prescribes behavior which should help an individual to win favour with supernatural powers, or which could have a positive effect on achieving an intended goal. The important part of the ritual is the concept of "liminality", and in addition "The communitas" status of the community. Victor Turner, who studied these aspects of ritual in detail, distinguished the term "ritual" from "secular ceremony" by the existence of liminality. In ritual and secular ceremony music performs many functions, and seems to be a very essential part of...
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Irish Traditional Music at Czech School
Křivancová, Veronika ; Veverková, Jana (advisor) ; Hurníková, Kateřina (referee)
The master's thesis deals with Irish traditional music and its possible use in music teaching at lower secondary schools in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part provides information on Irish traditional music and the historical and geographical conditions under which it developed. The practical part deals with the possibilities of its implementation into school education in accordance with the Framework Educational Programme for Basic Education. Accompanying the thesis is an appendix consisting of pictures, texts, worksheets and sheet music. The attached CD contains audio and video recordings as well as multimedia presentations.
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Traditional Bulgarian Music in Interetnic context
Bečev, Georgi ; Tyllner, Lubomír (advisor) ; Kratochvíl, Matěj (referee) ; Kouba, Miroslav (referee)
The work deals with interethnic contexts in the traditional Bulgarian music, which in the past were often neglected or marginalized for various reasons. Convergent processes which take place as a result of cultural interaction between the Balkan ethnicities are assessed. A role of the long-term affiliation of the Balkan region with one state structure (the Ottoman Empire) is examined as one of the factors, which could significantly help mutual contacts between involved ethnicities. The author's starting points are based on the philological concept of the Balkan Linguistic Union, in which a set of phenomena and convergent tendencies in genetically unrelated languages of the Balkan area are researched. The author raises the question whether it is possible to formulate a similar thesis in the field of music and to define a notional Balkan Music Union based on the assessment of the main converging processes. For this purpose, two distinctive phenomena, which are both present in the Bulgarian folklore as well as, to certain extent, in a broader Balkan context, are selected. Musical and cultural interaction between two ethnic groups is examined at the ceremony of the Nestinarstvo/Anastenaria, folk mysteries which culminate with a dance on hot coals and is practised by small communities of Bulgarians and...
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The Fetish of the Oldest Sound. Science, politics, and the fascination with the beginnings of sound recordings
Kratochvíl, Matěj
The invention of the phonograph in the late 19th century started an obsession with the recorded sound as a document of history. As such it became an important part of the human need to create stories from archival materials and to see them as parts of objective truth, a direct connection with the past. With the growing accessibility of historical audio documents, we need to look critically at these sources and at the possibility to take them as a trace leading to the beginning of a particular part of music history. The present paper shows in which ways we can see the phenomenon of sound recording truly as the beginning of something new and in which cases such an impression can be misleading. Unconsciously or with a political or other intent, recordings can present music in a very different, sometimes distorted form. With special focus on traditional music, the author attempts to formulate some general ideas that should be kept in mind when dealing with historical recordings so that we do not become too fascinated with the “past speaking directly to us”.
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Musician and audience: stage production and reception of Czech traditional music
Vejvoda, Zdeněk
Folk music in Bohemia started to find use as a social and political phenomenon as early as the 19th century, a time known as the Czech National Revival. Whereas Czech folk songs were collected by the thousand, in line with the romanticizing ideas of nationalism then sweeping across Europe, dance music performed in people's everyday lives remained long outside collectors' attention. The development of music folklore performed on stage was largely influenced by two exhibitions held in Prague – the Jubilee Exhibition in 1891 and the Czech-Slavonic Ethnographic Exhibition in 1895. Adaptations and stage presentations were becoming increasingly important research issues. A new impulse came from the inter-war avant-garde, whereas in the mid-20th century, the Czechoslovak Radio adopted a crucial role in the process. All that had a significant effect on the life and work of amateur “folklore” ensembles.
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Children's Folklore Groups of Doudlebsko
SOSNOVÁ, Petra
This labour is dealing with mapping of doudleby folklore on the area of south Bohemia. Common part does not include only a view of children´s folklore but also a view of adult´s folklore. There is also a determination of area, history and a characterizaton of inhabitants. Part of doudleby ethnicity are characteristic traditional costume, music and songs. Second part is determinated only on children´s folklore groups and deals with characteristic songs and dances of Doudleby. This labour also contains elementary informantion about groups, it´s structure, costumes and activity contents. Groups Bárováček, Jitřenka, Malý Furiant, Radost, Soumrak and Úsviťáček are mentioned in this labour. All groups are led by competent leaders who guide children towards recovery of traditional customs and raise the generation who replace them in functions in adult´s groups. The end of this labour contains information about methods that are used to lead the groups and District show of children´s folklore groups held by Dům dětí a mládeže (The house of children and youth) in České Budějovice.
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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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