Summary Kim, S. Development of traditional korean music with focus on string instruments, Prague, 2014 Diploma thesis. Academy of performing arts in Prague. Music faculty The goal of this thesis is to describe development of korean music since 220 B. C. up to the present. I focused on musical styles and musical instruments in the course of korean history. I applied my mind to string instruments, what are detaily described in fourth part of this thesis. This thesis also includes characteristic and changes of single musical styles. Furthermore this thesis includes historical conjuctions and clarifies the way, how king's dynasty influenced korean music developmnent. Results of this thesis present clear musical progression overview of traditional korean music from origins to classical music era.

In his thesis the author is reflecting subject (theme) of Nudity/nakedness in dance. The thesis is divided in six chapters. The first chapter is concerned with the term nudity/nakedness in general. The second chapter moves to the concept of nudity/nakedness in a short summary of historical context. This chapter is divided in seven sub-chapters, due to historical period or region. Third chapter is about nudity/nakedness in a dance art. Then summary of main topic follows, where the author tries to define different ways of using nudity/nakedness in dance art, when using several examples from dance history. The thesis also includes interviews with dance artists from the Czech republic and Slovakia. Intention of the thesis is to bring closer the phenomenon of nudity/nakedness in dance as a controversial theme. ?

My work is about the history of Slovak opera and theatre, since the first written records and live performances. I was also interested in the history of slovak theatre and it´s buldings, the first instances of slovak opera, and the rise of the Slovak National Theatre. The end of my work belongs to, in my opinion, two of the most important initiators of slovak theatre.

The thesis focuses on the reception history of Bernard Bolzano (1781- 1848) in the Czech intellectual culture of the 1945-1989 period. The aim of the thesis is not only to summarize existing studies of Bolzano's life and work or to study some of the partial themes related to Bolzano - but to discover basic features of Bolzano reception that can be found accross the different fields of Bolzano research and that are also connected to intellectual and political history background. The expected merit of the thesis can be considered from two different perspectives: In the context of intellectual history the reception of Bolzano is just a very partial theme, however it can expose some of more general features concerning Czech intellectual history of investigated period. From this point of view Bolzano is just a criterion of historical sources selection that enables to study very complex issue of the Czech intellectual history. In the context of Bolzano research this thesis is also a contribution to the better understanding of Bolzano's life and work. The thesis is pointing out themes which should be researched more thoroughly and, it is more important, it discovers the basic contexts of the potential further studies. Keywords: Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848), Czech history 1945-1989, Czech culture 1945-1989,...

The purpose of this thesis is to give a summary of historical development and explain fundamentals of the probability theory. Early systematic thoughts, emergence of classical Laplace, geometric and statistical definition of probability with development of theory, independence, conditional probability and Bayes theorem are shown. The thesis describes first mentions of random values and the central limit theorem. The alternative, discrete uniform, binomial, Poisson, continuous uniform, normal and exponential distributions are discussed with historical background of their discoveries. The theory is supplemented with illustrative and contemporary examples. The thesis describes development in various fields of probability until publication of the Kolmogorov's probability theory in 1933. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The present thesis deals with the concept of progress and faith in progress as well as changes of this notion in selected historical periods and philosophies. The topic of progress and perception thereof is extensive and problematic in many cases, e. g. with regards to the existence of this idea in the thought of Antique, or with regards to what might have been perceived as progress through the optics of Christianity. It becomes apparent that the concept of progress is even today fluid in it's interpretation, invested with political and economical connotation and, in somewhat unstable postmodern discourse, allows for many interpretations. At the same time it is becoming clearer and clearer that in the context of the current global situation, any discussion about progress whatsoever would be incomplete, unless it also adequately stressed ecological topics. A true progress for the future seems to be abandoning the set ways of consumerism and of exploitation of natural resources. Key words: progress, regress, procursus, faith in progress, myth

Cílem práce je vytvořit plastický obraz produkce a trhu kávou. Obsahuje nástin dějin kávy a kaváren, zabývá se významem kávy v mezinárodním obchodě a kávovou krizí. Popisuje aspekty pěstování, zpracování kávy a jejího uvedení na trh v produkční zemi včetně transportu do odběratelských zemí. Zahrnuje výčet hlavních pěstitelských oblastí a charakteristiku nejvýznamnějších producentů kávy. Je zde vysvětlena organizace trhu, formování cen kávy, zachycen současný stav a základní vývojové tendence na trhu. V práci jsou také představeni nejvýznamnější spotřebitelé kávy a nastíněny současné trendy na trhu v oblasti kávové politiky.

Dissertation discusses the cultural phenomenon of Brazilian capoeira and its Czech and European form. The whole text is divided into two parts, historical and anthropological. After an introduction describing the primarily motivation to study Capoeira we find a treatise on the methods of research and its process, which is related to the linguistic definition of the use of Portuguese terms. The first part of the anthropological section gives the reader an image of historical context of the development of capoeira in Brazil, and subsequently in Europe. Informations in this section are primarily taken from written sources, ie are driven from already explored areas of the theory of capoeira. The description of the European context is followed by a part where the entrance of capoeira into the Czech Republic is described and where the findings from my own research begin to be processed. Text flows into the anthropological treatise on the processes accompanying implantation of the exotic phenomenon in European countries and the reasons that led to it. The last part of the thesis deals with the effects of globalization of capoeira and various influences that changed or evolved the art in the new environment. The work presents the latest findings from the history and present of capoeira in its native Brazil as well as in Europe and is also the first work on the subject in the country.

I dedicate the first part of my master thesis, entitled The Civilian and Stage Spontaneity, primarily to my Disk season and experience with spontaneity on the stage and to the topic of the way to freedom conduct in the individual productions. The second part of the thesis is dedicated to the history of film acting and I return again to my own experiences and to the comparison of the acting in the film and in the theater in the last section of the thesis. I conclude the topic with the summary of the differences in the spontaneity of both disciplines and of the civilian life.

From the very beginning, film announced its duality: the style of the documentary works of the film pioneers - the Lumi?re brothers, stood in opposition to the illusionistic experiments of Georges Méli?s. As film language developed, it became clear that film is a mimetic art in a sense that it possesses the quality of capturing reality itself, which was one of the reasons why so many people were obsessed by the silver screen. At the same time the audience was equally overwhelmed by the modification of the reality previously captured, into a deeper, less profane meaning. These subtile modifications (misrepresentations) of reality in film, are a prerequisite for conveying ideas that enrich the narrative and provoke the audience. Transcendence is immanent to film, and film authors base their personal style, their own credo, on experimenting, exploring, balancing within and appreciating this quality. A bundle of tools had been invented for this purpose, from composition of shapes to combination of colors, from narrative to editing techniques. A complete and precise list would be hard to deliver.