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EUGÈNE YSAŸE, FRITZ KREISLER: THE GREAT VIOLINISTS AND COMPOSERS
Schäferová, Eva ; ŠTRAUS, Ivan (advisor) ; HŮLA, Pavel (referee)
My thesis focuses on two significant artistic persons of the turn of the 19th and 20th century - Eugene Ysaÿe and Fritz Kreisler. The work represents two important violinists, who were outstanding composers as well. This is confirmed by their works, which notably enriched the violin music literature. The first half of the thesis is dedicated to the Belgian violinist and composer, Eugene Ysaÿe - whose work is an integral part of every violinist's repertoire nowadays - while the other half is dedicated to the life and work of Fritz Kreisler.
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Annotated translation: Pablo de Sarasate (Scherzo, revista de música, year XXIII, no. 235, November 2008)
Perglerová, Anna ; Obdržálková, Vanda (advisor) ; Králová, Jana (referee)
The bachelor thesis is divided into two parts: a practical and a theoretical one. The first part contains the translation of an article from the Spanish scientific journal Scherzo about the life, legacy and reception of the violinist Pablo de Sarasate. Then, the genesis of the target text is being reflected theoretically. The translation analysis focuses on the original article and describes its particular aspects as well as general attributes of the source language. After specifying the principles of the translation, the largest part of the thesis concentrates on particular processes and changes which took place during the translation. The crucial aspect of the work is a functional point of view.
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Composers in High Baroque Prague
Vokřínek, Lukáš ; Kovář, Martin (advisor) ; Valkoun, Jaroslav (referee)
The author analyses acting Czech and foreign composers of church, chamber and opera music in high baroque Prague and so continues in still basic work engaging Prague high baroque and classicism music culture: Hudební Praha v XVIII. věku by Otakar Kamper, Melantrich 1936. At first the author specifies Prague high baroque style, tries to create profile of this style and outlines Prague music high baroque culture. Currently he applies to rich Prague culture life. In major part he focuses on composers which formed in Prague (or 'for Prague') at a given era. In third part he compares Prague music scene a given era with Vienna's. In conclusion assesses importance of given composers for general culture picture of high baroque Prague and evaluated mentioned comparison. Overall, the author finds out that many composers were connected with Prague of the era, and appreciates the significant contribution of the monastic orders to this development. The composers were completing the Gesamtkunstwerk that the high baroque Prague was. At the same time, an important precondition for the further music development arose and its climax was the activity of W. A. Mozart in the city. A brief comparison between the music scenes in Prague and Vienna revealed that both the cities had their qualities, although the position of...
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Relationship between electronic music and film
Švarcová, Johana ; BENDOVÁ, Helena (advisor) ; MAREK, Petr (referee)
In this work the mutual relationship between film and electronic music with particular focus on early sci-fi movies is discussed. This work is coming out from a phenomenal relationship between music and sound effects not often found outside of this genre. This topic is the rich source of an interdisciplinary overlaps and the cultural contexts, however not so much interest has been put yet to this field neither from Film or history of Electronic Music.
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Prokofiev´s Piano Concertos
Al-Ashhabová, Marie ; KLÁNSKÝ, Ivan (advisor) ; MALÝ, František (referee)
This thesis focuses on the piano concertos by Sergei Prokofiev. It is aimed
not only at the composer's works for piano and orchestra, but also at the life of
this unique artist. It refers not only to the beauty and timelessness of these
pieces, but also at the factors behing creating these piano concertos.
The work is divided into five main chapters - each chapter includes a piano
concerto. I add a brief biography of the composer for better orientation of the
reader in a given topic at the beginning.
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Olivier Messiaen and his organ works
Zahrádková, Marie ; TŮMA, Jaroslav (advisor) ; POPELKA, Josef (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with a prominent French composer, organist and pedagogue Olivier Messiaen and his organ works. The first part of the thesis brings relevant biographic information on the composer, overview of his works, compositional inspiration and specifies facets and components of Messiaens?s musical language (rhythm, harmony, melody, forms). In the following part, the focus of the thesis shifts to organ works: not merely to composition techniques but primarily to more thorough analysis of particular sheet music ? not however from the traditional musical-analytic perspective, but rather from outside-of-music, often theological context. The main goal of the thesis is to gain an insight into the core of Messiaens?s composition techniques, inspirations and motivations through the understanding of his music language as well as his life and philosophical perspectives. Uniqueness of this creator will be demonstrated by the analysis of the Gregorian melodies, Bible quotations and liturgical texts of the pieces ?Priere avant la communio? and ?La Nativité du Seigneur.?
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Vizualization of music in animation film
Ishida, Kaoru ; WANEK, Miroslav (advisor) ; MERTA, Vladimír (referee)
Purpose of this work in to find possibilities of vizualization of music, analyze masterpiece of vizual music. There are written about relationships between arts and five senses ? mostly sight and hearing, to make clear how pictures and music work differently, several experiments of visual music on history, animation films as vizual music, composer inspirated by pictures, and writer inspirated by music. Finally there is mention about meaning of expression of art works in different forms.
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Portréty umělců a hudebníků v próze Willy Catherové
MELHUBOVÁ, Tereza
The aim of the diploma thesis is a presentation of the detailed portraits of fictional artists and musicians in selected short stories and novels by Willa Cather. The diploma thesis contains three main chapters. The first chapter is focused on the delineation of the context of Willa Cather's writing. The chapter presents the author's biography focused on the musical impulses and crucial turns of Cather's authorship development as well as brief biographical facts about the real artistic personalities who inspired Cather's fictional characters. The second chapter concerns with the analysis of the fictional artistic characters in selected short stories by Willa Cather. The third chapter deals with the analysis of the fictional artistic characters in selected novels by Willa Cather.
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