Academic literature on the topic 'Česká hudební vokální tvorba'

SEIBERTOVÁ, Zuzana: Zdeňek Lukáš's Vocal Work a Personal Interpretation of the Cycle Prosté písně, op. 112. ( Disertation ) / Zuzana Seibertová. - Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. School of Music; Department of Voice and Opera Direction. - Dissertation Mentor: MgA. Martin Bárta. Prague: HAMU, 2014. The dissertation introduces the reader to the 20th century Czech composer Zdeňek Lukáš, familiarizing the reader with his compositions for voice and providing the author's own interpretation of the song cycle Prosté písně. The first chapters provide information on the composer's life, the development of his compositional style, and, most importantly, the author's compositions themselves, which had a significant impact on the 20th century Czech music scene. The following chapters are dedicated to individual songs of the song cycle Prosté písně, focusing on its interpretation, the relationship between the text and the music, and the union of three components of the cycle - voice, flute, and piano. In her analysis of the individual songs, the author draws on her personal experience interpreting the cycle. Keywords: Zdeněk Lukáš. Vocal repertoire. Choral repertoire. Song cycle. Song.

The thesis aim is to document and aptly characterize the lieder works of the composer Bohuslav Martinů. It is devided into four main chapters. The first three chapters are dedicated to Martinu ´s lied work in detail and the fourth chapter briefly touches Martinu´s complete vocal works - choral works, cantates, oratoria and melodramas.

This thesis addresses two principal operas by composer, Leoš Janáček. These are Jenůfa (1903) and The Cunning Little Vixen (1923). The author’s inspiration sources and the method of processing the selected subject are introduced herein. In both operas, L. Janáček is also the author of the libretto, which forms a link between these pieces. The information is drawn from ample Janáček literature and, of course, from music papers. The direction’s point of view is based upon the gained information regarding the pieces and upon the examination of some performance interpretations. With this thesis, I have verified that a thorough familiarity with the work is an absolute necessity for one’s own direction intention. It leads to realize the fact that one can create various interpretations of one piece when having a deep and stable understanding of it.

This master´ s thesis aims to familiarize the reader with a rare personality of Czech music, composer and musicologist Zdeněk Šesták. Of his work is here most elaborated his Concerto for Viola and Orchestra "Sokratovské meditace? with the analysis of individual phrases and examples of sheet music, solo part and from the score. The work includes also other Czech composers, representatives of approximately the same generation as Mr. Šesták, but often completely different creative principles. The mainconnecting element is Viola concertanto works - concertos, sonatas, songs, or nontraditional pieces, where this instrument dominates.

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of setting the poems of Josef Václav Sládek to music. The main source of the analyzed data is a bibliographic list of compositions, which was compiled after my own research in the databases and catalogues of the National Library of Czech Republic, the Municipal Library in Prague and Czech Museum of Music, as well as in specialised literature. The first chapter briefly summarizes the general principles of setting poetry to music and then it focuses on particular aspects of Sládek's poetics, which encourage composers to set his poems to music. The first chapter also outlines Sládek's poetics in different poetry collections. The second chapter gives a detailed analysis of the compiled bibliographic list of compositions in terms of the frequency in which particular poems have been set to music, the number of works composed by different authors, vocal and instrumental cast, and also time contexts. The third, and the most comprehensive chapter, is divided in accordance with the proposed semantically significant thematic areas of Sládek's poetic work - love poetry, poetry for children, peasantism and folk echo poetry and militantpatriotism. In the subchapters, Sládek's work is at first viewed through a literary prism, then the author attempts a musical analysis and...