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The life of Art Tatum and his importance in the history of jazz
Lobanova, Elena ; SLAVÍČEK, Jiří (advisor) ; Kristian, Vítek (referee)
This bachelor's thesis reviews the life and works of jazz pianist Art Tatum, the importance of his work for generations in the past 40s and 50s until now. His musical life and history of Jazz in 30s and 40s are stressed in the thesis. The core of the diploma is describing Tatum's development like a person, and emergence of his individual style playing the piano. The core of the thesis simultaneously analyses the record of composition by the great pianist Fatts Waller ?Ain't Misbehavin'? in Tatum's interpretation. The author of this thesis support his findings with his own compositional approach to the matter.
Metamorphoses of Paul Motian's music during his career
Tengler, Jakub ; SLAVÍK, Jiří (advisor) ; ŠOLTIS, Daniel (referee)
This thesis focuses on the personality of drummer, percusionist and composer Paul Motian. Paul Motian is increasingly called as one of the best drummers in all jazz history. The goal of the thesis is to depict his artistic life, ability for charakterisation of some different periods of his music career and understanding his musical thinking. The thesis also contains a transcriptions from several periods and an analysis and comparison of selected recordings.
Structural elements on music of Miles Davis
Rajnošek, Bharata ; SLOVÁČEK, Antonín (advisor) ; KOP, František (referee)
The thesis "Structural elements on music of Miles Davis" deals with the transformation of the jazz paradigm, briefly touches several crucial moments in the precipitous life of the aforementioned jazz giant and tries to capture at least a few subjectively important moments in his life. The thesis also defines what jazz music means to its author, in brief also author's basic musical preferences. This relates also to his endeavour to grasp the jazz personality phenomenon and within this context also the personality of Miles Davis. The author tries to understand the uniqueness of Davis' contribution and influence on music in general. In a surprising conclusion the beginning of Davis' jazz-rock period emerges as the most important one. The author sees there a fundamental peak - the transformation of the very essence of jazz interpretation - a change in the approach to jazz song themes as the head of the whole composition. The song theme is replaced by a single motive or a phrase. This leads to a shift of live interpretation possibilities and also the most important shift in the development of the jazz paradigm and method of working with structural elements.

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