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Magnificat by J. D. Zelenka in the context of period composition
Jurák, Pavel ; Niubo, Marc (advisor) ; Hlávková, Lenka (referee)
The topic of this bachelor thesis is the analysis of Jan Dismas Zelenka's Magnificat D major and C major and their comparison with contemporary compositions. Firstly the thesis deals with the question what Magnificat is and with ways of its treatment in the history of music. Next an emphasis is put on the important events in the life of the Hofkapelle of Dresden, on the events which later influenced the conditions of Zelenka's works and their concrete shape. Also the Magnificats of Zelenka's and Heinichen's predecessors in the Hofkapelle are mentioned. Subsequently the thesis is concerned with both Zelenka's works of Magnificat and in the main part it compares them with another 33 Magnificats of great contemporary composers. The analysis showed a certain connection of the Zelenka's Magnificat C major with the Magnificat C major of Johann Joseph Fux and also the connection of the Zelenka's Magnificat D major with compositions of Johann David Heinichen. Key words: Jan Dismas Zelenka, Magnificat, Dresden, baroque, church music, Johann David Heinichen, Johann Joseph Fux, Nicola Porpora
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Musical Life at the Parrish School of the Church of St. Bartholomew in Pilsen 1550-1620
Kotsu, Masako ; Baťa, Jan (advisor) ; Hlávková, Lenka (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to explore a lesser known chapter from the history of music in Pilsen. Her particular focus on the parish school at St George's Church Bartholomew in 1550-1620 stems from the fact that school choirs formed one of the key musical institutions of the Renaissance city. The work will summarize the current state of research and on the basis of preserved musical and non-musical sources will try to reconstruct the musical life in the St. Bartholomew school in the pre-White Mountain period and its relation to musical events in the parish church.
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Historically informed interpretation of Rennaisance and Baroque vocal music
Svoboda, Čeněk ; Pecháček, Stanislav (advisor) ; Nedělka, Michal (referee) ; Hlávková, Lenka (referee)
This dissertation thesis Historically informed interpretation of Rennaisance and Baroque vocal music is focusing on phenomenon, which plays an important role in the interpetation of early music from 1970. The text describes the historical, musicological, interpretative and padagogical aspects. The author is drawing from interviews with important europian interprets of early music, that have been realized during studies for the front czech musical journal Harmonie. The author also draws from his longlasting experience in profesional interpreting of early music and conducting student choir and amateur choirs. The first part of the thesis is focused on definition for the whole phenomenon, its historical development and current guidelines, and it introduces important musicians in early music. Using two different recordings of the same musical material the author is trying to describe, what exactly is the historical added value of informed intepretation. In the next part the historical periods of Rennaisance and Baroque are divided into five different aesthetic chapters and in each of them the thesis tries to answer the basic questions of interpretation. Separate chapters are dedicated to different pronunciation of Latin and to possible use of the early music in student choirs. The goal of the text is...
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Understanding performance tradition in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: The case of Dvořák's "New World" Symphony
Mišejková, Magdaléna ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Hlávková, Lenka (referee)
In this paper I examine and describe concrete features of performance tradition in the Czech philharmonic orchestra in case of Dvořák's "New World"Symphony. This research is based on field research while the main authority sustains in semi-structured interviews held with twelve members of the Czech philharmonic orchestra, different ages and instruments. Interviews are supported by analysis research of notes and selected discography in range of sixty years. The outcome of interviews reveals general qualities in performance which are thought as traditional and intrinsic as what is changing it. Although the view on traditional performance in the Czech philharmonic orchestra is not understand agreeably, result point out specific attributes through which the members recognized their own audio recording with. These attributes I try to explain and describe on concrete musical passages in "New World" Symphony on which I suggest the unique performance tradition carrying in the Czech philharmonic orchestra. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Song part of a convolut CZ-Ps, DA III 17
Hrábek, Šimon ; Baťa, Jan (advisor) ; Hlávková, Lenka (referee)
This bachelor thesis named "Song part of a convolut CZ-Ps, DA III 17" discuss a manuscript signed as DA III 17 and stored in library of Královská kanonie premonstrátů on Strahov. This manuscript has been for a long time almost ignored by musicological literature. The main point of this thesis is a codicological description of the manuscript, which is often refered incorrectly as missal ("Missale Pragense") and also introduction of its repertoire. The repertoire consists of hymns and also contain a number of religious unliturgical songs - in Latin (refered as cantio) and in Czech. Another significant point of this thesis is presentation of the song Jesus Christus nostra salus. The song is used for demonstration of general aspects of the development of the cantio genre. Jesus Christus nostra salus occurs in DA III 17 as a very special and unique variant. This circumstances lead to the last point - setting the DA III 17 variant of the song to the context of its genesis.
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Music in the Literary Works of Selected Czech Humanists of 16th Century
Pacala, Frederik ; Baťa, Jan (advisor) ; Hlávková, Lenka (referee)
This thesis deals with the musical allusions in the literary works of Czech humanists of 16th century. The author presents the current applications of these sources in Czech musical historiography. Further attention is focused on the representatives of the humanist culture in the Czech lands, the possibilities of their connection with the musical culture and on the effort to point out their mutual ties and contacts. The second part of the thesis is focused on two specific personalities - Georgius Handschius and Jakub Srnovec - whose works illustrate the possibilities of deepening the use of this type of sources in musical-historiographical research. Keywords Georgius Handschius, Jakub Srnovec, Poetic Works, Music, musica, Humanism, 16th Century, Czech lands
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Motet compositions by Carl Luython in the music print Selectissimarum sacrarum cantionum... fasciculus primus (1603).
Bilwachs, Jan ; Baťa, Jan (advisor) ; Hlávková, Lenka (referee)
This master thesis deals with the vocal compositions of rudolfine composer and organist Carl Luython. In his collection Selectissimarum sacrarum cantionum ... fasciculus primus, published in 1603 by the Prague printer Georg Nigrin, there are 29 sacred motets. Despite the partial knowledge about Luython's motets in the existing musicological literature is provided, a new revised view with regard to new findings concerning the genre of the motet is required. The master thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the preserved copies of Sacrae cantiones and provides their description and the historical outline of the sources and their probable use. In the second chapter, the problems related to the function of the motet in the second half of the sixteenth century are discussed. The third chapter deals with the collection itself. Criteria for selecting the repertoire, its inner structure and content are considered, which are subsequently analyzed in more detail. The fourth chapter is composed of four case studies concerning the current problems of research. The first case is a motet O domus luminosa, the paraphrase of the Augustine text. In the second case, Luyton's relationship with the Corpus Christi brotherhood is pointed out by the motet Pange lingua. In the latter case the...
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Missa Resurrectionis Domini in the Polyphonic Gradual of the Literati Brotherhood at St. Michael's Church in the New Town of Prague.
Krátká, Natálie ; Baťa, Jan (advisor) ; Hlávková, Lenka (referee)
The object of the thesis is the style analysis of the anonymous five-voice mass ordinary, which forms a part of the Officium Resurrectionis Domini written in 1578 into the only surviving set of partbooks from the church of St. Michael in the Prague, New Town (CZ-Pu, XI B 1a-d; E-Ps, DA II 3). The ordinary, based on several canti firmi (plainchant, sacred songs), consists of three parts - Kyrie, Gloria and Credo. Thorough analysis of the composition answers the question of the relationship between this composition and paschal ordinary written in 1594 in a manuscript CZ- Hkm Hr-22 and Hr-23. A version from Hradec Králové contains a number of motives consistent with the Prague version. The text of the thesis is accompanied with the transcription of both ordinaries. Keywords polyphonic mass ordinary, literati brotherhoods; Church of St. Michael (Prague, New Town), Church of Holy Spirit (Hradec Králové), musical sources, musical analysis
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