Isang Yun and his works for oboe is a title of this master thesis. It introduces a personality of a Korean composer Isang Yun and it focuses on his works for oboe. The first chapter contains resumé of principal moments of the composer´s life. The next chapter briefly touches characteristics of a traditional Korean music, how the western culture is displayed in the Korean music, what is her influence on the Korean music and their inosculation into each other. The following chapter describes a compositional style of Isang Yun in which elements of both different cultures combine in a unique way. Yun´s work is devided here into five stylistic periods and in this chapter one fractional subchapter is also introduced where an insight into a few compositional techniques of the composer, can be found. Final chapter contains analysis of five compositions, which Isang Yun wrote for oboe "Piri, Doppelkonzert for oboe and harp, Rondell, Quartett for oboe and strings and Bläserquintett.

The Czech organist Michael Bártek presents the thesis Richard Wagner and the organ. Penetration of the Work of the Genius from Bayreuth into the Music for Organ as a graduate master thesis in studies on musical faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. This thesis concerns itself with the relationship between Richard Wagner and the organ, a relation which is, despite no specific composition from the maestro for organ, surprisingly rich, and which seems thus far unexplored. Considering the impending bicentenary of the composer (and the 130th death anniversary), the theme deserves to be elaborated on. The author reviews the direct relationship of Wagner and the organ, with his influences on composers for organ, as with, for example, the issue of transcription, at first more general, later more focused on Wagner.

The following theoretical work titled MOZART'S SONGS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE INTERPRETER has been written on the grounds of the personal experience of the author with the interpretation of Mozart's work. It discusses the history of the origin of nine selected songs, which have been analysed from the vocal-interpretive standpoint and from the standpoint of tectonic structure and musical form. Primarily, the analysis is an expert treatise of the vocal technique field enriched by the components of the historically informed interpretation.

Master´s thesis takes interest in basic technical and psychological prerequisites for reaching artificial guitar playing. The ways of solving technical questions are shown from historical and contemporary view. This thesis contains the comparison of Segovia?s and Tennant?s methods with my personal evaluation. In the case of playing position together with right and left-hand technique I add my own remarks and proposals.

This thesis focuses on the personality of Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin and his piano etudes, which are a source of technical skills for the study of the artist's other works. The main scope of work is to include all aspects that can assist the artist or piano lecturer in their study, ie. Etudes inclusion in the context of the composer's life and his entire piano works, profiling etudes by technical demands on performers, individual characteristics etudes and last but not least, formal analysis and interpretation of the author's etudes. Finally, work is a summary of general features that are common to all etudes and an outline of the author's musical development, which in the course of writing etudes passed.

Master's graduatinon thesis Harpsichord-Basso continuo and obligate instrument in chamber music by J.S.Bach (focusing on sonatas for violin and harpsichord) deals mainly with 17th and 18th century. The content of the thesis is divided into three main chapters, which are further divided into sub-chapters, accompanied by footnotes and the note annexex at the end of the thesis. The first chapter outlines the role of the harpsichord in the play basso continuo. The second chapter deals with the transformation of basso continuo parts to obbligato parts from German authors of the 18th century. The third chapter analyzes the topic of the harpsichord concerto as instruments in the violin sonatas by Bach and explains the Bach Sonata in E Major for obbligato harpsichord and violin (BWV 1016) which I played at the master´s concert. The final chapter is a summary of the previous chapters.

This thesis focuses on the Violin Concerto composed by L. v Beethoven, its interpretation and the changes in attitude towards the composition within the two centuries of its existence. The paper is divided in four chapters. First of all it provides information based on primary sources about the development and changes in the violin technique and interpretation. After that an insight into the fate of the concerto after its premiere occurs, followed by an account of its performers. The following chapters compare first the different editions of the concerto and later on its numerous recordings. A live recording of the concerto performed by the author accompanied by Musica Florea with the conducter Marek Štryncl makes part the thesis.

Abstract This thesis deals with Maurice Ravel's Concerto for piano and Orchestra in G major. At first, it makes readers acquainted with important matters in author?s life and then it presents a genesis of the work and its first reception. Overview of the main inspiration sources, which are reflected in Concerto in G major follows. On basis of the analysis of harmony, musical form, piano stylization and comments of the first interpreter of the work, Marguerite Long, are formulated conclusions, important for acquirement of appropriate viewpoints for the proper interpretation. These attitudes are confronted with top performances of this composition, first by Marguerite Long and than by renowned pianists from different countries (Leonard Bernstein, Boris Krajný and Hélène Grimaud). Supplement of this thesis is a CD, which documents a few examples of the basque music, which was one of the main inspiration sources of the Concerto in G major and contents recordings of this piece of all above-mentioned pianists.

This thesis introduces biography of Hungarian, often overlooked, composer Miklós Rózsa and the focus is on his Concerto for Viola and orchestra op. 37. His biography is in nine chapters by life periods, chapter no. 10 is about his Concerto for Viola and orchestra op.37.

The thesis titled Dance as a musical form in the French suites J. S. Bach thematically follows the bachelor thesis entitled Saraband like a dance in baroque harpsichord literature (with a focus on French Suites by J. S. Bach). It deals with the connection between dance and music form. The first chapter is an overview of the socio-cultural aspects in France during the reign of Louis XIV. Other chapters are devoted to individual Baroque dances, allemande, courante, corrente, gavotte, minuet and gigue. In addition to the history of dance is here described its baroque dancing form, charactical traits and overview of dance steps, which are often preffered in its baroque choreography, then part of the chapter focuses on the transformation of dance forms in stylized instrumental piece.