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Late works of Morton Feldman
Zvěřina, Petr ; TICHÝ, Vladimír (advisor) ; Šťastný, Jaroslav (referee)
In my dissertation, I’m trying to establish a theoretical model for better understanding of processes that occur in Morton Feldman’s late works (e.g. Piano and String Quartet, For Bunita Marcus etc.). These compositions are extremely long and not climax-oriented, we can observe „repetition“ of limited amount of musical material, there is no „general“ compositional system, musical sections can be freely interchanged or combined, acoustical qualities of tone material are emphasized. These attributes are interconnected, they are creating a specific type of „musical assemblage“ that I define as rhizomatic form (in reference to Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of the rhizome). First of all, I’m elaborating Feldman’s own texts and current studies about his music. Subsequently, I’m discussing Feldman’s compositional procedures in the context of post-war musical avantgard (The New York School, Anton Webern, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, musique informelle). Main part of my dissertation is dedicated to rhizomatic form; before the discussion of this term, I’m focusing on related topics: compositional and acoustic reality, difference and repetition, speed and intensity. I’m constantly trying to confront my findings with Feldman’s early works (e.g. Intermission 5 and 6). I’m also comparing composer’s overall attitude towards musical structure with methods and techniques of abstract expressionists (e.g. Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock) and novelists like Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka. Following the concept of rhizomatic form, I’m trying to analyze Feldman’s composition Patterns in a Chromatic Field for violoncello and piano.
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Organicity as an Aesthetic Concept in Contemporary Music
Dřízal, Jan ; BARTOŇ, Hanuš (advisor) ; FILAS, Juraj (referee)
Diploma thesis Organicity as an aesthetic concept in contemporary music tries through interdisciplinary comparison to point out possible manifestations of organics in a musical context. By organicity is meant the holistic understanding of a music work as an „organism“, in which the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole and which is manifested primarily by its sound shape. The text describes how the concrete musical parameters relate to the organic form and how they model it. The author first defines basic organic characteristics such as homogeneity, causality, non-geometry, processuality, or continuity of the form and then demonstrates them on numerous note examples. It does not create a new theory but seeks to point out the universality of this phenomenon both from the historical point of view and in its current forms. Attention is paid to various types of musical perception, time experience and perception of sound form. The terms „sound object“ and „sound gesture“ integrate into a new context and proposes a new typology of musical processes. The work briefly touches on the origin of thinking about organicity in philosophical and aesthetic discourse.
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Works of Jan Klusák and Marek Kopelent
Nečaský, Jan ; KAŇKA, Michal (advisor) ; PETRÁŠ, Miroslav (referee)
Bachelor work about the New Music phenomenon and two composers, Marek Koplent and Jan Klusák. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical-historical and analytical. The theoretical and historical part deals with the new music and musical life of both composers, their musical activities in ensemble Musice viva pragensis (Kopelent) and Komorní harmonie (Klusák). Deals with the modern European music that influenced the composers. This section is divided into three chapters. The first concerns New Music and characterizes it, others deal with both composers. The second part of the bachelor thesis is analytical. This is an analysis of the compositions of the Jitřní chvalozpěv (1978) by Marek Kopelent and VII. Invence pro orchestr (1972−73) by Jan Klusák. The bachelor work is written using this literature and on the basis of personal interviews with both composers. In the analytical section are scanned scores.
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TECTONICS OF THE 20th AND 21st CENTURY MUSIC FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF COMPLEX ANALYSIS OF MUSIC STRUCTURE
Krejča, Tomáš ; TICHÝ, Vladimír (advisor) ; KVĚCH, Otomar (referee)
This dissertation tries systematicaly contain rarely reflected phenomenon of tectonics. Its aim is to explore tectonics as a dynamic process of structuring focused on the structures of 20th and 21st century music.
This thesis portrays tectonics as a comprehensive tool of articulation of music and sound material in general. It reflects the current state of research on home field and brings partial views of the world, where, however, faces terminological difference and practical absence of tectonics as a term and as a musicological field or discipline. Tectonics conceived as a systematic discipline reflecting the tectonics as a phenomenon is to some extent the Czech (Czechoslovak) specifics. Within its own concept of tectonics of contemporary music the thesis presents general tectonic scheme of the structuring process. In the range of this work is structure defined as a system and some tectonic functions and principles are described too. The dissertation, however is honestly trying, not aspire to be a comprehensive, complete and systematicly perfect concept of tectonics. In terms of variability and evolution of musical language, which is tectonics an organic part of, it is not even possible. Nevertheless, we believe that this thesis will provide useful insight and possible introduction to closer examination of tectonics as a key phenomenon of structuring the musical substance.
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NEW INTERPRETATION MEANS IN CZECH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR THE GUITAR
Mazan, Josef ; RAK, Štěpán (advisor) ; KLAUS, Miloslav (referee)
This dissertation explores the field of new interpretation means in the compositions for the guitar solo by Czech contemporary authors. Nineteen works have been chosen, in the period from 1943 to 2015. The material obtained through analysis is by the means of comparison explored into a greater depth.
The result of the research can be summarised in the statement that to write well for the guitar means to understand the right hand. In the chapter about instrumentation I further explain these features. The aim of this thesis is to inspire new works for the guitar.
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Integration of jazz elements in my compositional work
Horká, Kateřina ; FILAS, Juraj (advisor) ; Tóth, Miroslav (referee)
Abstract
This Bachelor thesis is focused on the integration of jazz elements in my classical music compositions. For the whole 20th century, the combination of jazz and classical music was a subject of discussions in a musical society. From the origins of jazz, some compositions were combined and subsequently influenced by classical music. This approach still remains in a certain group of composers to this day.
The first movement is represented by the composers of the early 20th century, including French Impressionists e.g. Maurice Ravel, Les Six - Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Arthur Honneger. We should not forget to mention Igor Stravinskij. In our land, these trends can be found in works of Bohuslav Martinů, Erwin Schulhof and especially in works of Jaroslav Ježek.
The second movement of these trends began in the 60s and it was called "The Third stream". In our country it is represented by Alexej Fried, Pavel Blatný, Milan Svoboda and others. The idea of synthesis of jazz and classical music is still current to this day, many composers consider it their compositional basis.
Over the course of the 20th century there was a great style diversification in a popular music and so over the time the synthesis of other styles with classical music appeared. It is a very broad topic. That is the reason why I would like to focus on my compositional work influenced by jazz.
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The Use of the Amplified Accordion in the Contemporary Music
Zabelau, Raman ; HOŘÍNKA, Slavomír (advisor) ; TROJAN, Jan (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with the issues of the accordion amplification, comparing different creative and technical approaches: the ways of sound recording, different internal microphone systems and different concepts of music composition. Evaluation of the results of my work, will hopefully allow me to design and subsequently build a new internal microphone system for the live production.
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Authors´ approach to application of microtonality
Chudovský, Daniel ; KURZ, Ivan (advisor) ; RIEDLBAUCH, Václav (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on works of different composers across the 20th century in the field of microtonal and micro-interval music. The aim of this thesis is to point out other solutions of this technique based on analysis of composition approaches of Alois Hába and his contemporaries. Systems of tuning relating the most convincingly to the application of micro-intervals into the melodic-harmonic process of music composition are also discussed in this paper. The core of the thesis is an author's explanation of the so called central reapplication based on a specific approach to the use of micro-intervals. The thesis contains an analytical view of two compositions of its author where central reapplication is utilized as one of the possible approaches to implementing micro-intervals into music compositions. The aim here is to define two different ways of thinking about this tone set and to bring at least a partial recontextualization in viewing of micro-interval music.
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Using concertante principle in works by Alfred Schnittke
Fila, Jan ; RIEDLBAUCH, Václav (advisor) ; FILAS, Juraj (referee)
Concertante principle is one of the compositional technic that goes along in the western music
for more than four hundred years. Basis for this historic techniques are used until now. For
researcher arises the question: Exists the concertante principle in the newer musical literature,
or merely is a relic of the distant past? In the last few decades has been one of the strongest
personalities, who dealt with the using of the concertante principle, the Russian-German
composer Alfred Schnittke, who wrote several dozen concertante works. In music history
after the Second World War, we can hardly find any another person that would be dealt with at length this genre. The aim of this thesis is to examine in detail, how the composer treated
with this technique if used only historically given compositional techniques, or innovatively
replaced. As a method of investigation was chosen analysis of large amounts of scores, on
which there is evidence Schnittke use and targeted using of concertante principle.
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