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Personality and Work of Jan Nepomuk Polasek (1873-1956)
Chumchal, Jan
This dissertation thesis focuses on the person and work of Jan Nepomuk Polášek (1873-1956), a distinguished regional composer and music teacher who spent a significant part of his life in Valašské Meziříčí. Throughout his life, Polášek devoted himself to creative work, which was, to a varying degree, inspired by the Moravian Wallachian folk culture. The thesis outlines the important phases of Polášek's life including his childhood and school days, first contact with music teaching, his studies at the Brno Organ School, and, last but not least, his relationship with Leoš Janáček. The Biographical part of the thesis ends with a subchapter devoted to Polášek's work in Valašské Meziříčí until his death in 1956. Polášek's body of work includes his compositions, music-related organisational activities, music teaching, publishing and folk song collecting. The aforementioned activities are presented and analysed in the remaining chapters of this dissertation thesis. The final chapter analyses selected instrumental, vocal-instrumental and vocal compositions of Polášek's, based on which it illustrates the key elements of his creative work. The thesis presents some entirely new findings regarding the life and work of Jan Nepomuk Polášek that are founded on many information sources the author obtained. Key...
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Choral singing in preschool age in perspective Kühn's Children's Choir
Hrubá, Anna ; Valášek, Marek (advisor) ; Kmentová, Milena (referee)
This work discusses the musical development of a child in preschool age and work on it, as well as how choral singing contributes to it. In the theoretical part of the work, you will find the basic developmental components that a child goes through in preschool age and how they should be worked on in order for the development to be balanced. Furthermore, the thesis deals with choir singing in preschool age, who is the choirmaster, what is his role in the choir and who is a member of the choir and how to become one. One of the main parts of the work is a discussion of Kühn's children's choir, which is one of the best choirs in Europe and is very close to me. Here you will find the history of the choir and information about its founder, Jan Kühn, after whom the choir is named. Part of my work is also the present day of the choir and its existing workers and today's activities.
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Tachov children's choir
Dubská, Klára ; Pecháček, Stanislav (advisor) ; Veverková, Jana (referee)
This diploma thesis deals mainly with the Children's Choir of Tachov, his choirmasters and also briefly deals with the culture of the Tachov district. The first part of the work is devoted to the history of musical life in the Tachov region from the 18th century to the present. The second part focuses on the beginning of this choir, his development and structure of the children's choir itself, which also includes its preparatory departments. Next topic is also dedicated to the biographies of the two main choirmasters - Josef Brabenec and Jana Válová. Next, thesis studies in detail the complete choral activities, which include choral workshops, foreign tours, concerts and festivals, achievements and discography of this musical ensemble. Established target of the work is to map the complete history of this ensemble, which includes everything from the beginning of this choir to the managerial activities of choirmasters. Most of the material necessary for the writing of this work come from interviews with the choirmaster, from the author's own experience with this ensemble and from chronicles of the Children's Choir of Tachov. After thorough studying of the activities, achievements and history of TDS, it is possible to state that this ensemble is one of the most high-quality choral ensembles in the...
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Specifics of choirmaster's work in the choir with people with disabilities
Brdičková, Anna ; Valášek, Marek (advisor) ; Veverková, Jana (referee)
The thesis focuses on specifics of choirmaster's work in choir with people with disabilities. The first half of theoretical part brings general overview of choirmaster's competencies, divided into three principal categories, which are essential for his work. The second half of theoretical part presents different types of disabilities, which are possible for choirmaster to meet with, and outline the specific needs related to choir singing based on the type of disability. The practical part of this work presents a research built on interviews with eight choirmasters, who had the experience with leading choir with majority of people with disabilities or experienced integration of people with disabilities in their choirs. By analyzing repetitive themes mentioned in choirmaster's statements we summarize their experiences, which can be the source of inspiration to other choirmasters dealing with this problematics.
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The Phenomenon of Latvian Song Festivals
Skoupá, Kateřina ; Lemeškin, Ilja (advisor) ; Štoll, Pavel (referee)
This work deals with Latvian Song Festivals as an important phenomenon in Latvian history which started in Latvia in 1873. Their basis lays in choir singing developed in Latvia on a massive scale in 2nd half of 19th century. The festivals probably continued old tradition of singing - so-called teicamās dziesmas which had a similar structure as modern choirs. The development of choir singing is connected with Herrnhuterian schools and pedagogical colleges. The personality playing an important role in this process was a chief pedagogue in Valmiera Jānis Cimze whose collection Dziesmu rota launched a discussion about the future of Latvian culture from the point of view of national identity. Although the structure of Latvian Song Festivals was taken over from the Baltic Germans the idea of national identity has been involved since the beginning. Forming of Latvian national identity was in its beginnings influenced by J. G. Herder's philosophy and his idea of Volkslied and Volksgeist and it is closely connected with Latvian folk songs. It corresponds with Latvian self-determination as the nation of singers. In four historic periods defined by socio-political changes on Latvian territory these ideas together with a strong national element is found exactly in Latvian Song Festivals. The festivals become a...
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