|
|
Folk songs from the thematic viewpoint
KOLÁŘOVÁ, Kateřina
The aim of this bachelor's thesis is to provide a detailed overview about topics which occur in Czech folk songs. The basis for constructing conclusions is the analysis of songs present in Jindřich's reworked edition of a collection Nápěvy písní národních v Čechách, authored by a poet Karel Jaromír Erben and a composer J. P. Michael Martinovský. The practical part is preceded by a theoretical part, in which basic findings about the problematics of folk culture, more closely focusing on folk song, are formulated.
|
|
|
The Ensemble of Folk Songs and Dances Čtyřlístek from Nové Strašecí
Muric, Petr ; FRIČOVÁ, Marie (advisor) ; ORNSTOVÁ, Eva (referee)
This dissertation is focused on The Ensemble of Folk Songs and Dances Čtyřlístek
from Nové Strašecí. It summarizes its history and describes main personalities who
worked with this ensemble over its forty years long existence. This research deals
with the founders collectors activities as well as collection of folk songs served as
an inspiration for the ensemble´s creative work. As part of this thesis there are
also interviews with principal dancers of this ensemble, as well as with its founders
Bohumil Chochola and Jan Stránský. This thesis also documents the ensemble´s
artistic creation in its timeline and illustrates two scripts of selected dancing
programs. Finally the last part of the thesis focuses on The Middle-Bohemian
Festival Funfair of Tuchlovice, which was created thanks to the ensemble´s artistic
work.
|
|
|
The Phenomenon of Latvian Song Festivals
Skoupá, Kateřina ; Lemeškin, Ilja (advisor) ; Štoll, Pavel (referee)
This work deals with Latvian Song Festivals as an important phenomenon in Latvian history which started in Latvia in 1873. Their basis lays in choir singing developed in Latvia on a massive scale in 2nd half of 19th century. The festivals probably continued old tradition of singing - so-called teicamās dziesmas which had a similar structure as modern choirs. The development of choir singing is connected with Herrnhuterian schools and pedagogical colleges. The personality playing an important role in this process was a chief pedagogue in Valmiera Jānis Cimze whose collection Dziesmu rota launched a discussion about the future of Latvian culture from the point of view of national identity. Although the structure of Latvian Song Festivals was taken over from the Baltic Germans the idea of national identity has been involved since the beginning. Forming of Latvian national identity was in its beginnings influenced by J. G. Herder's philosophy and his idea of Volkslied and Volksgeist and it is closely connected with Latvian folk songs. It corresponds with Latvian self-determination as the nation of singers. In four historic periods defined by socio-political changes on Latvian territory these ideas together with a strong national element is found exactly in Latvian Song Festivals. The festivals become a...
|
|
|
Béla Bartók and his Suite Paysanne Hongroise
Nešverová, Anna ; VÁLEK, Jiří (advisor) ; PIVODA, Radomír (referee)
The Bachelor's thesis "Béla Bartók and his Suite Paysanne Hongroise" describes the
Bartók's life, his folksong collecting, collecting trips and the composition "Suite Paysanne
Hongroise" for flute and piano. The first chapter is focused on composer's life and his
musical development. Second chapter describes folksong collecting and especially Bartók's approaches during the folksong collecting and influence of folksongs to his music. The final chapter is focused on "Suite Paysanne Hongroise" in version for flute and piano. Pictures and scores are viewed in the appendix at the end. Bartók's authentic recordings of folksongs are on the enclosed CD.
|
|
|
Hospital clown
Vláčilová, Michaela ; PETIŠKOVÁ, Ladislava (advisor) ; HALAŠ, Adam (referee)
Brief characteristic:
The aim of the present thesis is to describe the Zdravotni klaun civic association, namely the work of the clowns themselves - zdravotni klaun, or "health clowns", i.e. artists visiting children and adult hospital patients. It amounts to a new creative discipline practiced by young artists, who, in their clown hospital visits, employ selected artistic approaches to benefit the health condition of the patients or people suffering from various ailments. This humane institution using artistic methods is already considered a part of the healing process in the hospitals, most notably where serious diseases are concerned. The artists use their original approach to heighten the patients' spirits and, primarily, to elicit laughter, which sets off supportive bodily functions augmenting the effects of treatment. This thesis offers an essential research into this new and developing discipline, drawing on direct experiences of the artists involved in the field in an effort to abstract summarising conclusions and to use their experience to shed more light on the character of this new discipline.
|
|
|
Visualisation of musical notation using XML technologies
Vacek, Matěj ; Kosek, Jiří (advisor) ; Šimůnek, Milan (referee)
This thesis focuses on the visualization of musical notation. Even for such a small group of data, there is a specification (MusicXML) which can be used for converting between different softwares. The development of musical notation has been going on for centuries and it has become very complex by now, because composers want to express all their thoughts. Therefore, I have decided to limit the supported part of musical notation and in this thesis, I will focus only on the area of simple Czech folk songs, which have their own specifics. The songs will be displayed in SVG format. This format is based on vector graphics. Transfer between the original and SVG file will be implemented by using XSLT transformation, which is created in this thesis. As far as I am concerned, there is no such already existing transformation.
|
guest ::
