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Personality and Work of Jan Nepomuk Polasek (1873-1956)
Chumchal, Jan
This dissertation thesis focuses on the person and work of Jan Nepomuk Polášek (1873-1956), a distinguished regional composer and music teacher who spent a significant part of his life in Valašské Meziříčí. Throughout his life, Polášek devoted himself to creative work, which was, to a varying degree, inspired by the Moravian Wallachian folk culture. The thesis outlines the important phases of Polášek's life including his childhood and school days, first contact with music teaching, his studies at the Brno Organ School, and, last but not least, his relationship with Leoš Janáček. The Biographical part of the thesis ends with a subchapter devoted to Polášek's work in Valašské Meziříčí until his death in 1956. Polášek's body of work includes his compositions, music-related organisational activities, music teaching, publishing and folk song collecting. The aforementioned activities are presented and analysed in the remaining chapters of this dissertation thesis. The final chapter analyses selected instrumental, vocal-instrumental and vocal compositions of Polášek's, based on which it illustrates the key elements of his creative work. The thesis presents some entirely new findings regarding the life and work of Jan Nepomuk Polášek that are founded on many information sources the author obtained. Key...
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Folk music in the work of Czech authors
Melichárková, Alžběta ; Veverková, Jana (advisor) ; Hurníková, Kateřina (referee)
The master's thesis is focused on the presence of folk music and culture in the work of four Czech authors, Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček and Bohuslav Martinů. In the theoretical part, the composers are introduced in chronological order. The emphasis is put on the key moments and influences that subsequently shaped their relationship to folk music. There is also provided the historical and social context necessary for understanding the topic. Furthermore, there are also stated and described the compositions that are inspired by folk music or use it explicitly. The compositions are stated alongside corresponding sheet music. In the practical part, selected compositions, which were discussed in the theoretical part, are used as material for teaching activities. These activities were created for teaching music education at lower secondary schools. In the activities, accessible folk music is used as a mean to understand more demanding classical music. All activities are tested in pedagogical practice and are therefore provided with a description, goals, methodological commentary, and graphic materials.
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“Tis beautiful in the spa towns, since one finds much pleasure there for one´s health to suit one´s tastes.” The Spa Town Topos in Czech Literature in the 19th Century
Fránek, Michal
Spa towns represented a space where the middle and higher classes could take in the relaxing effects of various healing procedures but they were also important locations for making social contacts, having fun and enjoying leisurely activities not the last of which included lovers´ trysts. Our essay attempts to examine how these aspects of spa town life appeared in Czech journalism of the time (B. Němcová, J. Neruda), in literary fiction (A. V. Šmilovský, I. Klicpera, T. Nováková, F. X. Svoboda etc.) and in the opera (L. Janáček: Fate). The work also monitors how Czech and German competition and efforts to create their own, purely Czech spa town of Luhačovice, figures in literary representations.
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Piano Pieces by Leoš Janáček nad Options of Their Interpretation
Landkammerová, Veronika ; Gregor, Vít (advisor) ; Tichá, Libuše (referee)
Résumé The bachelors' thesis The piano pieces by Leoš Janáček and options of their interpretation deals with the life, the style of composing and the music contribution of Leoš Janáček and with his piano pieces. The first part of the work occupies itself with Janáček's Moravian origin, his attitude to music, studies and his success and failure. The work shortly describes his family life because it influenced his oeuvre and credo very much. It summarizes the most important attributes of master's style and as for the piano pieces it gives instructions how to study the pieces as a performer. The second part concerns with the piano-only work. Each piece is being investigated, the options of their interpretation are being looked up and the problems of interpretation are being discovered. Solutions of them are being found on audio recordings by important Czech interprets of Janáček's work. The bachelors' thesis comes to the conclusion that Leoš Janáček was an original, singular composer of world stature. He was a unique person who was and up to the present time is in a class of his own. His work was a great asset to music world and life. The piano pieces are mostly intimate and by investigating we find out that the options how to understand them are unlimited. It's important that the tones "go through the furnace...
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Libretto versus drama based on the Čapek's Makropulos affair
Mudrová, Jitka ; Mocná, Dagmar (advisor) ; Brožová, Věra (referee)
We compare the features of drama and libretto, based on the text The Makropulos Affair by Karel Čapek (drama) and Leoš Janáček (libretto). We would like to show not only common dramatic features, but also the specific librettist features, which Janáček used by transformation Čapek's drama into opera libretto. We demonstrated, that dramatic features are in libretto at the level of structure and the specific librettist features are at the level of story, single figures and its constellation. The analysis confirmed the preliminary hypotheses.
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Věc Makropulos. From the idea to the performance
Mudrová, Jitka ; Pecháček, Stanislav (advisor) ; Volavá, Iva (referee)
This thesis presents a complex of Janáček's opera The Makropulos Affair, covering its origin (and the genesis of opera in general), represents personality of Leoš Janáček from different perspectives and offers a didactic treatment of this theme. The work includes two layers - a theoretical and didactic. If we look at the text from a theoretical perspective, then here are about Janáček operas in terms of ideas, editing, production and inspiration of women. Further information on the general features of the libretto, practice, the role of stage manager, Janáček personality, his creative period, music and speech input field of prose to opera. Didactic point of view we see in the arrangement of this work and in quantities of information. The teacher can use the work as the basis for teaching, including the last chapter, which is dedicated only to the practical challenges and ideas. This thesis should help teachers, who want to focus on the opera or the personality of Leoš Janáček in the classroom.
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Leoš Janáček's Lachian Dances and their use in music education at primary school
Mervartová, Eliška ; Selčanová, Zuzana (advisor) ; Veverková, Jana (referee)
DIPLOMA THESIS Leoš Janáček's Lachian Dances and their use in music education at primary school Eliška Mervartová ABSTRACT The diploma thesis deals with Leoš Janáček's Lachian Dances and their didactic application in music education. The theoretical part examines the Lachian Dances through the didactic analysis and describes the speech of composer and its connection with folk art. The practical part of the diploma thesis is focused on the didactic interpretation of the Lachian Dances. The pupils in the age of middle childhood, specifically 3rd and 4th graders at the Vrchlického primary school in Liberec, were selected as a sample. The results of the thesis are teaching materials that serves as a source of inspiration for students of primary education and current teachers of music education. KEYWORDS Leos Janacek, The Lachian Dances, speech melody theory, the didactic interpretation, the age of middle childhood, teaching materials, music education
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Jaroslav Vogel (1894-1970) - artistic profile
Černíková, Lenka
The framework consists of comprehensive dissertation intepretation and sources concerning the conductor, composer, journalist, and organizer of musical life Jaroslav Vogel (1894- 1970). Along with a comprehensive description of the artistic profile, synthesis, and attempt of a critical evaluation, the chapters are structured thematically in this work, with regard to the time sequence. The principal sources were archives and daily newspapers, in which the obtained information was verified and developed. The introductory chapter is devoted to family, education, and the first professional experience indicates the relation between his studies and the genesis of Vogel's future professional direction. The central article is part of the work of the artistically important period in the opera ensemble of the Národní divadlo moravskoslezské (National Moravian-Silesian Theatre) in Moravská Ostrava between the world wars, when its implementation and opera concerts of symphonic music reached a high artistic level, with extraordinary social and educational outreach. The view of dramaturgy and quality opera productions and concerts provide the opportunity to evaluate the significance of his organizational skills and influence on the development of Ostrava music culture. For the first time ever, this paper...
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Music, time, and space in a progressive reflection of Leoš Janáček
Procházková, Jarmila
The paper focuses on that specific part of Janáček’s theory of music that deals with the relationship of music and space, thus logically including the term time as a continuum in which music takes place. Janáček found ideal study material in speech melodies (nápěvky) and in folk song, that is, in an area not touched negatively by literary (written) petrification. This enabled him to observe manifestations that originated spontaneously in rhythm and expression. The paper also deals with later reflections by Janáček of the specific connection of music with space, that is, the psychological internalization of music matter. Janáček found the theoretical explanation of folk song partly in geographical determinism. In his opinion, mesological influences determine the regionally-specific features of melody, rhythm, and other components of folk music. New philosophical and methodological influences, including Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, could be observed in Janáček’s theory in the beginning of the 1920s. The composer stopped using the term space-time, which included encoded variability and the independence of the observer. It was this subjectivity of the observer, presupposing shifts in time and thus in meaning, that became a part of Janáček’s understanding of the musical material, both in the reception phase and especially in the process of creation. This view supported Janáček’s tendency towards the tectonic concept of music structure, affirming him in his sophisticated work with time layers and consequently helping him create unique deeds in dramaturgy in the area of composing opera music.
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