The goal of this document is to demonstrate how Slovak folk music inspired creation of some early 20th century chamber, orchestral, and vocal-instrumental compositions. In examples drawn from works of Vítězslav Novák, Leoš Janáček and Béla Bartók the author analyzes the different ways of translating folk music idioms into the compositional language of these composers. The first of the introductory chapters presents an outline of distinctive features of Slovak folk music. It talks about the role of folk song in the life of Slovaks and its connection to social events in the villages. It also analyzes the relationship between language and music. The coexistence of modal and tonal music is emphasized and songs are divided into historical periods. In the second part of the introduction an historic overview of the influence of Slovak folk music in classical music is given. The chapter covers the first known occurrences of this influence in the collections of songs and dances from the Baroque era and the occasional references in the Classical and Romantic music. The impulses behind the wave of interest in Slovak folk music in the 20th century are also examined. The first chapter documents the influence of Slovak folk music on Vítězslav Novák. It describes his early career and his first encounters with Slovakia. The central part of this chapter consists of analysis of the symphonic poem In the Tatras, a work inspired by Slovakia and containing Slovak music references. The second chapter of this document is devoted to Leoš Janáček. His multifaceted approach to folk music included an intimate knowledge of people’s lifestyle, traditions, local dialects and speech patterns. The fruit of his research is documented in the song collection 26 Folk Ballads. The majority of these arrangements for voice and piano are of Slovak origin. The final chapter examines the personal and artistic ties of Béla Bartók to Slovakia. Bartók employed folk music elements in his compositions with a genius which made him a master of such compositional approach. The variety of ways by which Bartók used Slovak folk music is scrutinized in the analysis of Three Village Scenes.

The thesis deals with Singing and music society Vítězslav Novák in Rakovnik. Main aim of my text is to provide a high quality monograph discussing almost one hundred years long tradition of said society, as well as its other two very important branches, The Rakovnik Opera and The Rakovnik Philharmonic Orchestra. For a duty of the thesis I have carefully studied Singing and music society collection placed in The National Regional Archive in Rakovník. Furthermore, I read a literature arguing legislative rules of societies. Also, I examined sources linked to cultural and historical issues of the city. The thesis is divided in following parts. Firstly, I wrote about history and activities of the society over the time of its existence in the city. Next chapters in precise refer to particular activities of the society including an introduction of its most important characters. Last but not least, I discuss the Rakovnik Opera, which is nowadays in the city even more remembered and significant than the society itself. The single chapter is dedicated to The Rakovnik Philharmonic Orchestra, too. It had been subsequently involved to The Rakovnik Opera, though.

In den 90er-Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts empfanden tschechische Musikwissenschaftler die Wichtigkeit der historischkritischen Verarbeitung von Musikerbriefen wieder sehr intensiv. Es begann die Arbeit an der Bohuslav Martinů-Briefausgabe; daneben gibt es eine lebhafte Debatte über eine kritische Edition der Briefe Leoš Janáčeks. Eine ähnliche Diskussion begann auch im Umkreis der Vítězslav-Novák-Forscher.

Vítězslav Novák wrote his second opus of choral ballads, Two Ballads on Words of Moravian Folk Verses Op. 23 Vražedný milý and Neščasná vojna, in 1900. He set Moravian folk song texts from contemporary song collections to music, the first version was for mixed choir and piano four hands, followed by an orchestration for symphony orchestra. The ballads were a great contribution to choir repertoire and have made their mark in choral concert life, as evidenced by the press. Despite such a great interest, the orchestral score has never been printed and is only available in manuscript. Even critical literature did not deal with this topic more specifically, so there is still some ambiguity, for example, concerning premieres or the state of the sheet music.

The purpose of this thesis is a comprehensive performing analysis of the program Tone Poem “Pan” op. 43 by Vítězslav Novák. This composition represents one of the pearls of the Czech piano repertoire, but very few pianists included it in their concert programs because of the duration and technical difficulties. However, thanks to its originality, richness of the harmonic and melodic resources and quality of the detailes, the piano music of Vítězslav Novák is worth to be performed at concert venues much more frequently. Using for her studies czech information sources mostly, such as monographs, sets of articles about Novák, Novák’s biographic notes, the author has tried to aggregate data on the idea of “Pan”, the composition process and to describe the outstanding performers of this unique cycle. Recordings made by František Maxián, František Rauch, Martin Vojtíšek, Margaret Fingerhut and Slovak Filharmonic Orchestra with Zdeněk Bílek have served as valuable materials for the comparative analysis of different interpretations of the piece. The author’s own observations that were made during her studying and performing the piece as well as a theoretical analysis are included.

The aim of my work, after collecting and studying the available literature, is to describe a long and difficult development of universities in Moravia, which resulted in the creation of the Masaryk University in Brno. Trying to summarize and analyze the life work of five prominent personalities who are closely connected with the history of the Masaryk University and its activities, not a few have contributed to the development of statistics in the interwar period.

The magister thesis is connected with bachelor's thesis, which was concentrated on Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 2 by Slovak composer Alexander Moyzes (1906-1984) and was concerned on it mainly with collected sources. In this thesis we decided to point out its composing work and possible inspiring sources and therefore the focus of this diploma thesis is its introduction into historical context of piano music of the 19th and 20th centuries. Through composite-technical and stylistic analyses of selected piano sonatas and other works, we want to contribute to the closer characterization of Moyzes composer's personality and to complement the literature that Moyzes Sonate has devoted to in minimal terms from composing work and inspiring sources. Selected pieces include: Brahms Sonata f mol, Op. 5 and Variation and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24 from the point of view of means of piano stylization, Sonata Eroica, op. 24 for piano by Vít zslav Novák because of their mutual interest in working with modality and mutual close relationships (Moyzes's teacher). In addition to these goals, we will also focus on the other piano works of Moyzes by creating a new chronological inventory based on preserved sources. Key words: Alexander Moyzes, Piano Sonata in E minor op. 2, Johannes Brahms, Vít zslav Novák,...

The work presents life and work of Vladimir Jan Amos Novak, it shows his main thoughts unified by the principle of sociogenesis and points at its inspiration in older traditions of german and russian biology. It also concerns his anthropology as related to the principle of sociogenesis and shows some peculiar Novak's contributions, mainly his opinions on progessive neotenization of man and evolutionary tedency for association. It grasps the principle of sociogenesis as a biological and also a political concept and therefore shows its very political consequences presented mainly on his social thoughts. The work also deals with the relations between eastern and western science on Novák's efforts to unify all sciences under one universal evolutionary framework regardless its geographical belonging. Throughout the work is Novak shown in the context of man-animal relations and the principle of sociogenesis as arising from myrmecological studies. There are therefore presented anthropological works of three important myrmecologists A. Forel, W.M. Wheeler and E.O. Wilson as inspired in the study of ants.

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