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Josef Suk: Praga. Symphonic Poem Op. 26
Kovářová, Adéla ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Kachlík, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis is concerned with the symphonic poem Praga, Op. 26 composed by Josef Suk in 1904 in need to create a music image of Prague at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century. The thesis deals with the current research and literature situation and it presents Suk as a composer and a musician at the turn of the century. The crucial part of the thesis informs about circumstances of Praga's origin, its premieres, publication and reviews in newspapers at the beginning of the 20th century. It is particularly concerned with the description of the form and the analysis of Suk's composition. In following two chapters, Praga is set into a broader context. The first of them describes the city of Prague and its depiction in artworks at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century. The second contextual chapter discusses Suk's symphonic poem in the connection with the Hussite movement tradition formed at that time and with a Hussite song Kdož jste boží bojovníci (Ye Who Are God's Warriors) infiltrating into the awareness of the cultured and educated society during the 19th century.
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Josef Suk: Praga. Symphonic Poem Op. 26
Kovářová, Adéla ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Kachlík, Jan (referee)
The diploma thesis is concerned with the symphonic poem Praga, Op. 26 composed by Josef Suk in 1904 in need to create a music image of Prague at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century. The thesis deals with the current research and literature situation and it presents Suk as a composer and a musician at the turn of the century. The crucial part of the thesis informs about circumstances of Praga's origin, its premieres, publication and reviews in newspapers at the beginning of the 20th century. It is particularly concerned with the description of the form and the analysis of Suk's composition. In following two chapters, Praga is set into a broader context. The first of them describes the city of Prague and its depiction in artworks at the turn of the 19th and the 20th century. The second contextual chapter discusses Suk's symphonic poem in the connection with the Hussite movement tradition formed at that time and with a Hussite song Kdož jste boží bojovníci (Ye Who Are God's Warriors) infiltrating into the awareness of the cultured and educated society during the 19th century.
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Structured drama about Ctirad and Sarka as the way for understanding the symfonic poem
Klasová, Ráchel ; Svobodová, Radmila (advisor) ; Marušák, Radek (referee)
The thesis examines the usage of the method of structured drama in explaining the content of a classical piece of music to pupils on Primary school. In the theoretical part, the arguments which support the combination of artistic domains - Music and Drama - from literacy sources are summarised. The connection is described from the point of view of cross- curricular relations, the activity basis of these domains and the similarities between them. The musical content is also analysed. The thesis focuses also on the used method, especially its goals, techniques and topics used on the Primary school. The research section describes hypothesis, methodology, preparation, realization and the results of an experiment, on several Primary schools. Experimental groups where introduced to the content of the B. Smetana's symphonic poem Šárka by structured drama. Control groups were familiarized with it only by reading and verbal explaining. The focus of the experiment was to compare the understanding of the content between these groups. Key words Structured drama, tale about Ctirad and Sarka, symphonic poem, B. Smetana, understanding, realization, Primary school, cross-curricular relations, listening.
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The oboe solo in Smetana's Blaník in the context of the 19th century pastoral musical motifs
Podroužek, Vojtěch ; Ottlová, Marta (advisor) ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to point to the tradition of pastoral in the 19th century symphonic music with the use of the oboe or english horn as the instruments with a special characteristic to this color. As a principal specimen of this kind of music to this thesis was chosen the oboe solo of Smetana's Blaník symphonic poem. In connection with this symphonic poem all the so far known analysis of this piece have been recapitulated with the addition of a proposal to the new possible approach to such an analysis of this piece and all this was laid out to two individual chapters. Through the next specimens of 19 th century pastoral music, among which have been selected parts of Beethoven's, Rossini's, Berlioz's or Wagner's pieces is given evidence of the another compositional approaches to this topos of the 19th century European symphonic music.
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