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Lyrics and music in the spiritual;Spirituals in recent form according to their lyric element, interpretation and pedagogical use
Minářová Výborná, Terezie ; Nedělka, Michal (advisor) ; Bezděk, Jiří (referee) ; Kuhn, Tomáš (referee)
The dissertation work deals with the topic of Afro-American spiritual songs especially spirituals which are viewed from more aspects. The first part deals with the evaluation and critical attitude to the accessible Czech and foreign literature. Next part shows the moments of progress of the Afro-American spiritual music. There is also a special part explaining the definitions of certain expressions and circumstances and conditions of the progress of those songs and their changing. It also touches the problems which the Afro-American slaves struggled with and which are reflected in their songs. The work also puts accent on their influence on other types and genres of music. Then the work also pays attention to important people who did a lot for the progress and recent form of spirituals. The main topic of this work presents the beauty of those songs which comes out especially from the complex analysis. It deals especially with the details of the lyrics which are the base for other elements like melodic, rhythmical and harmonic disposal. The lyrics of those traditional songs seem to be very simple and uncomplicated at first sight but after a deeper understanding other aspects can be found like the biblical basis, deepness of the religion of the Afro-American slaves and also a never ending hope for a...

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