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Multigenre pieces for flute composed by Mike Mower
Juričová, Jana ; VÁLEK, Jiří (advisor) ; KOUTNÍK, Štěpán (referee)
The bachelor's thesis follows the life of Mike Mower, a British flutist and a multigenre composer, and analyses his pieces written for the flute. Mower's work is strongly influenced by popular music, therefore, the author included a larger chapter about the history of the flute as a fully fledged instrument used in jazz music. Moreover, this chapter covers also various jazz genres and important jazz musicians. In the second part, the author examines Mower's concertos for flute (concertos, sonatas, suites, solo pieces).
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Aaron Copland and his Duo for Flute and Piano
Jarkovská, Jana ; VÁLEK, Jiří (advisor) ; PIVODA, Radomír (referee)
This master´s thesis deals with the personality and works of the 20th century American composer Aaron Copland. In its first part it brings his biography together with a summary of his most important pieces. The second part of the thesis focuses on Copland?s Duo for Flute and Piano written in 1971. Besides the information about the historic context of the piece and its characteristic it contains an interpretative analysis and a parsing of the Duo?s recordings.
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Béla Bartók and his Suite Paysanne Hongroise
Nešverová, Anna ; VÁLEK, Jiří (advisor) ; PIVODA, Radomír (referee)
The Bachelor's thesis "Béla Bartók and his Suite Paysanne Hongroise" describes the
Bartók's life, his folksong collecting, collecting trips and the composition "Suite Paysanne
Hongroise" for flute and piano. The first chapter is focused on composer's life and his
musical development. Second chapter describes folksong collecting and especially Bartók's approaches during the folksong collecting and influence of folksongs to his music. The final chapter is focused on "Suite Paysanne Hongroise" in version for flute and piano. Pictures and scores are viewed in the appendix at the end. Bartók's authentic recordings of folksongs are on the enclosed CD.
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The Novels of Jaroslav Vrchlický
JOHNOVÁ, Petra
This thesis focuses on the prosaic writing of Jaroslav Vrchlický. In the first part it monitors an extension of the reception in these novels (it analyzes their editions with the help of the database Caslin). It also observes character of the period reception from the first publication of the corresponding titles up to the year 1918 (there is a support of the database Retrobi and Lexikon české literatury). The second part of the thesis analyzes the Vrchlický's novels according to methods of naratology and literary thematology. The third part of this writing focuses on a genre and a themed characteristic of the Vrchlický's novels in the context of that period.
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Sir Malcolm Arnold. Life and work, focusing on flute repertoire
Reiprich, Oto ; PIVODA, Radomír (advisor) ; VÁLEK, Jiří (referee)
The thesis concerns Malcolm Arnold, one of the most significant English composers of the 20th century, and his favorite instrument - the flute. In the biographical part it focuses on Arnold`s difficult and complicated life, his mental illness and the consequent impact of these facts on his work. It gives special attention to personalities and circumstances which are associated with Arnold`s compositions for flute. The second part involves formal and harmonical analysis of his two concertos for flute and orchestra and the Fantasy for solo flute. I have factored in the influences of different 20th century musical styles - serial methods, jazz, cabaret performances - in his composition techniques. The work is based on my personal interpretation experience.
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Flutist Josef Bok
Pavlíčková, Jana ; VÁLEK, Jiří (advisor) ; PIVODA, Radomír (referee)
The objective of this thesis is to present the life and work of Josef Bok, a Czech flutist from the first half of the 20th century. It brings information on his artistic development and on people who influenced his professional growth, it speaks about his time in Russia in the historical context, and last but not least it deals with his pedagogical activities at
music schools in Brno and Prague. It also presents ?Škola hry na flétnu? (Flute Practice Book), a musical-didactic work written by J. Bok in cooperation with Rudolf Černý. The thesis tries to analyze this publication and compare it with the contemporary way of playing the flute. It marginally touches Bok?s role as a composer and a piano player.
The significance of Josef Bok is evaluated through subjective observations and memories of other flute players and family members in the conclusion.
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Jean-Pierre Rampal and Czechoslovakia
Horehleďová, Eliška ; VÁLEK, Jiří (advisor) ; HLAVÁČ, Jiří (referee)
This master's thesis captures Jaen-Pierre Rampal not only as a highly recognized flutist. It also provides an overview of his musical and pedagogical refinement of opinions and experience gained during his life. The major part of this work focuses on the relationship of Jean-Pierra Rampal to Czechoslovakia and to personalities linked to him. In the first two parts which are necessary for the overall understanding of his personality, I describe in detail the music activity of Jean-Pierre Rampal, his biography, educational activities, flute brands he preferred and his relationship to baroque music. In conclusion, I mentioned a few memories of Jean-Pierre Rampal his friends and colleagues and also outlined the activities of the Association Jean-Pierre Rampal and his discography.
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The Conception of Teaching Play the Floot in free time centres
PRZECZKOVÁ, Lucie
This disseartation deals with the conception of teaching play the floot in free time centers. It is specialised on music in the leisure time field and its farther using in life. The dissertation describes music in particular fields of the educational process. It is mentioned here the mission of primary art schools, the mission of kindergardens and the role of leisure time institutions for children in the teaching play the floot. The first part of the dissertation is concentrated on the meaning and influence of music on children. The chapters chart the conception music, the emotional reaction of child on music and musical climate in family. The second part of the dissertation deals with enumeration of particular musical activities. The last part of the dissertation concentrates on the Yamaha musical school and the examples of musical-moving activities.
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