The diploma thesis consists of three parts. The first one describes the historical role of psalms during masses from their origin until presence. It illuminates the new role of psalms in the Cathlolic liturgy after the second Vatican council and outlines how these liturgical changes projected into Czech Catholic enviroments. The second part introduces significant Czech psalters and their authors. The psalters were created for liturgical needs and in reaction to the conclusions of the 2VC for liturgical needs. The third, main part of the thesis consists of detailed analysis of 1992 Karel Sklenička's psalter Responsoriální žalmy pro neděle a významné dny liturgického roku. The analysis of harmonic and melodic procedures of individual tones serves as a basis for the practival part of the thesis which is an extension of existing Sklenička's psalter to all days of liturgical year. The new psalter preserves the music component composed by Karel Sklenička and also preserves the way of work with the liturgical text in new psalms following the pattern of Karel Sklenička. The new psalter keeps strictly to the liturgically prescribed texts for individual liturgical occasions like the psalter from 1992.

This diploma thesis focuses on relations between a candidate and a political party and how these relations are influenced by political marketing and media. Political party TOP 09 and its leader Karel Schwarzenberg are studied during the political campaign preceding Czech legislative election in May 2010. The study is based on TOP 09's documents and interviews of Karel Schwarzenberg in Czech media. Theoretical part of this thesis is dedicated to concepts of political marketing, influence of media and models of communication. Content analysis compares themes and ways to speak about them used by the party and by Schwarzenberg. Qualitative analysis asks if the party can make use of Schwrazenberg for its own campaign and how strength and what sort of are relations between TOP 09 and its leader.

This thesis concerns itself with the Minor Theatre after the year 1989, namely with changes in a staging style of this prague platform that focuses mainly on a production for the child audience. In the production of the theatres principal directors (Karel Makonj, Jan Jirků, David Drábek, Jiří Adámek) we can observe distinctive courses of staging methods, that shape the Minor's character. The primary aim of this thesis is to attempt to reflect these staging courses and demonstrate them using profile plays. An excursus into the history of the Minor Theatre precedes these analyses to define its character. Biographies of the said directors are also included in the thesis, as well as the list of theatre's plays form 1990 (with the dates of premieres) and photographic material ilustrating the theatricals analysed here.

Thesis (M.A. (Applied Language and Literary Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

This dissertation attempts a Bakhtinian analysis of the polyphonic dialogue between Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Karel Schoeman's Na die Geliefde Land and Jason Xenopoulos' Promised Land. Specific Bakthinian concepts are employed to determine whether the films are "apt" adaptations of the literary texts; how the stylistically hybrid texts engage in conversation with different movements, genres and trends; how the polyphonic conversations between different texts and discourses, such as literature and film, or colonialism and postcolonialism, can provide insight into the variety of discourses, textual and ideological, of a postcolonial, post-apartheid South Africa; and how identity crises experienced by key characters can be explained using the notions of hybridity, "The Marginal Man" and liminality. All four texts have key characters that experience identity crises that spring from cultural hybridity; their cultural hybridity has the potential to either render them marginally stagnant or lead them to liminally active participation within their imagined communities. This dissertation argues that even though there are major differences between the films and the literary texts they are based upon, they are relevant to a specific target audience and therefore enrich the ur-texts. Salient characteristics of realism, symbolism, impressionism, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism and the apocalyptic dialogise one another within the four texts, thereby liberating the texts from one authorial reading. The dialogue between the discourses of literature and film supplement an understanding of the dialogue between war, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism and the Will to Power. / Thesis (M.A. (Applied Language and Literary Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006

The title of my master's thesis is Karel Pivoňka and Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and bassoon class from the beginning to the present. In the first chapter is the development of czech bassoon school and everything that preceded the bassoon class of Academy of Performing Arts. In the first chapter is subchapter where I mention the personality of Karel Bidlo, which also had an effect on the development of czech bassoon school. In the second chapter I discuss Academy of Performing Arts, the school and individual departments. In the third chapter describes the personality of Karel Pivoňka and in the subchapter are listed all the graduates of the Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts, which studied at prof. Karel Pivoňka. In the following chapter are the most significant graduates from the beginning to the present. The last chapter is an overview of most concerts and broadcasts for radio, which played Karel Pivoňka. Annex is scanned photo of Karel Pivoňka.

In this dissertation thesis I focus on the overview of some outstanding international clarinet competitions, their repertory, and compositions written to order for the given competition. The itemization of compositions I enriched by the characteristics and analysis of some compositions focused on the difficulty and appearance of contemporary clarinet techniques. Last but not last, I write about the establishment, history, and point of each competition and their contribution to young talented musicians.

The aim of this diploma thesis entitled "Didactic interpretation of Čapek's works in literary education for the 2nd stage of primary education" is to chart how the works of Karel Čapek are represented in each series of reading books for the 2nd stage of primary education. It will also further evaluate the choice of works represented and introduce the fundamental concepts in Čapek's work. The thesis is divided into many parts. The first of these is concerned with the current state of literary education, the question of literacy, and other individuals who have an effect on the process of literary education. Furthermore, recorded methods that are used in literacy lessons are outlined. The methods that focus principally on the development of literacy are described in more detail. On the basis of classic literature a didactic interpretation is described, its situation, function, determinants and policies. The thesis concisely describes Čapek's works. A key part of the thesis is made up of the analysis of reading books from many different publishers Alter, Fraus, Nová škola, Prodos and SPN. The thesis focuses not only on how many snippets of the work of Karel Čapek are found in any given reading book, but also takes into account the representation of the genre and the ideas presented alongside the texts. After evaluation, the actual concept that the entirety of Čapek's work attempts to cover is introduced.

This diploma thesis is a treatise on life and work of Mons. Karel Fořt, an eminent priest, a leader of Czech Spiritual Care in Germany, and an editor of religious broadcasting on Radio Free Europe. For my thesis, I used following sources: State Regional Archives in Třeboň, professional literature, and online sources.

The thesis is called ?Czech cookery-books of 18th century?. During 18th century there were editted by printing-press totally 5 cookery-books that have come down just till today and are saved in our libraries, museum and archives. This thesis is concentrated on 4 of these books and is divided into 5 chapters. Each cookery-book is interpreted separately in its particular chapters. The main themes of these chapters there are the formal traits of each cookery-book and secondly inner analysis of the recipes. Mainly there was placed emphasis on the ingrediences that were used during cooking in the 18th century (meat, fish, vegetables and herbs, fruits, spices and other ingrediences). There is included the resume after the fourth book of Leopold Neubauer. All books are already presented together there. At the end the obtained pieces of information are summarized and the cookery-bookes from 16th century are partly compared with the ones from 18th century. The enclosure of this thesis is created by edition ?The cookery-bookes of Vienna? by Leopold Neubauer. The complete text was edited (except indexes at the end of the book).