This dissertation centers on creating a new critical edition of the Rip Van Winkle overture. One of America's earliest opera composers, George Frederick Bristow (1825-1898), completed the opera Rip Van Winkle in 1855. When he revised it twenty-five years later in 1880, the composer omitted the original overture which was then thought to be lost. A concert version of this overture exists today only in manuscript form, located at the New York Public Library. Rip Van Winkle is significant to the history of American Music because it is one of the earliest operas composed by an American, and the first to be written on American subject matter (in this case, Washington Irving's story of the same name). Adding to the work's considerable historical significance is that the overture was one of the first American pieces performed by the New York Philharmonic Society, in which Bristow was a violinist. There is currently no scholarly edition of the overture, and thus this edition will fill a significant gap in the understanding of nineteenth-century American music. This critical edition of the overture to George Frederick Bristow's Rip Van Winkle was created in order to be published and available for performance and study, shedding light on the often under-represented American opera in the United States.

The aim of this thesis is the identification, analysis and subsequent evaluation of the strategic plan of the Czech Philharmonic in order to contribute to the improvement and expansion of evaluation methodologies in the cultural sphere. This will be achieved via interviews with the management of the organization as well as with analysis of current strategy using selected strategic tools and evaluation methods. This master thesis is divided into theoretical and practical parts. The main theme of the theoretical part comprises the definition of strategic management and its tools and further description of methods and approaches of strategic plan's evaluation. The practical part is devoted to the description and evaluation of the current strategy of the Czech Philharmonic, the output of which is to formulate improvement measures and new strategic possibilities.

1 Abstract The author of this work pays attention to Czech musical personality Jaroslav Kofroň who is known primarily as an educator and author of pedagogical literature: The textbook of harmony; The textbook of rhythm and intonation. The main objective is to bring the essential information about the artist's compositional activity that is not known, although it is very rich and deserves more attention. According to the information the works are identified with the year of their implementation and available materials that are stored in libraries or on the website. The partial aim is a comprehensive and acquaints the public with the whole range of Kofroň personality that we perceive as a performer, a conductor, a choirmaster and a painter. Main chapter provides an overview of the composer's instrumental formation that includes the creation of orchestral, brass, chamber music, solo concerts. A huge attention is focused on the creation of the song, which contains over 600 songs, edited or composed both for solo singing voices and choirs: male, female, children's and mixed. It also identified spiritual music, stage and production for children there. My work provides an analysis of song "Songs for the youngest" and the author's didactic notes Cycle pieces for horn and piano "Images", intended for children of...

The Philharmonic building is designed as a circular central building located in the center of an elliptical water ring. The house moderately expands to upward by an angle of ten degrees. This compositional princip implicitly refers to the morphology of ancient temples, but his reasoning is mostly functional. The water ring has a maximal size considering the size of the park, in spite of it is a significant limit for dimensions of the object. First floor therefore builds up the smallest possible surface area of the ring and each higher floor is increased according to the need of the philharmonic, especially so the floor area suffises to the big amount of dressing rooms and rehearsal. The total cubic capacity of the object is almost minimalist, a concert hall and other necessary equipment is designed in the lower limit of the minimum dimensions. The philharmonic is opened to the neighborhood around the perimeter of all floors, behind the facade common life takes place, this fact makes the building visually interesting. In the daylight, when traffic is muted, it gives the impression of the stoic temple, but in the evening it "coming to life". Architectural expression is subordinated to this princip. The facade is designed from structural glazing, to achieve the greatest possible effect of transparency. The abstract shaping without natural scale of the window or other articulated architectural elements is chosen with respect to the principle philharmonic as a temple of music, not primarily "only" public building. Requirements for the indoor climate indicate a need of the interior shading. In accordance with previous principles the shading elements are chosen abstractly as continuous vertical wooden beams starting at different height with respect to public space inside of the building.

The theoretical part of this MA thesis outlines the history of the Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir, its cooperation with Prague's leading stages, with outstanding Czech and international musical ensembles and conductors, as well as important concerts and appearances at prestigious festivals. It introduces the personalities who have held the position of choirmaster, and it surveys the choir's repertoire and discography. A short chapter is dedicated to the present situation of the choir and its present artistic guidance. The practical part comprises interviews with personalities who are, in various ways, linked with the Prague Philharmonic Children's Choir. A separate chapter is dedicated to a questionnaire which was given to members of the concert section of the choir and which covers the reasons and motivation for entering the choir and remaining there, the musical background in families etc.

Submitted by Verena Bastos (verena@uefs.br) on 2015-08-04T13:22:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o de Mestardo.pdf: 371421 bytes, checksum: 1878c40ee039e49359e18198531ad186 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-04T13:22:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Disserta??o de Mestardo.pdf: 371421 bytes, checksum: 1878c40ee039e49359e18198531ad186 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-24 / Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado de S?o Paulo - FAPESP / The present work aims to analyze Cachoeira Town?s Lyra Ceciliana and Minerva Cachoeirana Philharmonics, respectively founded in 1870 and 1878. Such a work shows a study concerning the above-mentioned Institutions covering the period from 1960 to 1980, in order to identify the Philharmonics members? profiles, their partners and leading groups; events in which both Institutions used to participate, the type of audience that accompanied them and the relationships between the Philharmonics and that time municipal government. The work also exhibits the tours of various locations accomplished by the above-mentioned Philharmonics, as well as the conflicts between them upon showing off in the garden bandstands concerts. We have chosen the time frame among the years 1960 to 1980, seeking to identify the cultural, social and technological transformations in Brazil and in Cachoeira Town during that period and the impacts the Military Dictatorship caused in Cachoeira?s Philharmonics. The issue that guided the research was based upon the following question: what survival strategy were developed by both Philharmonics to keep themselves alive and resistant to the pressures imposed by the diffusion of new technologies, new rhythms and sounds? In order to obtain answers to our questions we have used several sources, such as minutes of meetings, members? book, the institution regulations, articles, photographs, newspapers and interviews with both Philharmonics musicians. This research accomplishment is justified considering it provides a thorough analysis about the above-metioned Philharmonics, also due to what they have promoted and are currently developing social and educational work of great relevance to not only the town but also other locations? teenagers and young adults. / O presente trabalho teve como objeto de an?lise as filarm?nicas da cidade de Cachoeira a Lyra Ceciliana e a Minerva Cachoeirana, fundadas em 1870 e 1878 respectivamente. Realizamos um estudo acerca das institui??es no per?odo de 1960 a 1980, com o intuito de identificarmos os perfis dos integrantes das filarm?nicas, seus s?cios e grupos dirigentes; os eventos nos quais as institui??es participavam, o tipo de p?blico que as acompanhavam e as rela??es existentes entre as filarm?nicas e o Poder P?blico Municipal da ?poca. Mapeamos os passeios realizados para diversas localidades e os conflitos entre as filarm?nicas cachoeiranas nos coretos. Escolhemos o recorte temporal entre os anos de 1960 a 1980, buscando identificar as transforma??es culturais, sociais e tecnol?gicas ocorridas no Brasil e na cidade de Cachoeira nesse per?odo e quais foram os impactos causados pela ditadura militar nas filarm?nicas cachoeiranas. A problem?tica que norteou a pesquisa residiu na seguinte quest?o: quais as estrat?gias de sobreviv?ncia desenvolvidas pelas filarm?nicas para permanecerem vivas e resistentes diante das press?es impostas pela difus?o de novas tecnologias, novos ritmos e sonoridades? Para chegarmos ?s respostas dos nossos questionamentos utilizamos fontes como as atas das reuni?es, o livro dos s?cios, os estatutos, fotografias, jornais e entrevistas com integrantes das bandas. A realiza??o desta pesquisa se justifica na medida em que propicia uma an?lise minuciosa acerca das filarm?nicas, estas promoveram e atualmente desenvolvem um trabalho social e educacional de grande relev?ncia para os jovens da cidade e demais localidades.

The building is located in the city Ostrava in Cerna louka, that is a city district very close to the center and river side, just in a middle of the ortogonal block build up area. The philharmonic is designed like a big block made of brass from which is rising the light glazed volume of the auditorium and where the volume of atrium is hidden in. This 2 volumes represent the future and past values of the city Ostrava. The volume of the auditorium is the only object in whole ortogonal area that is twisted. Due to this fact it gains uniqueness and dissimilarity. Thanks to that is becoming a new symbol of the city.

Entering this thesis was to design a building for the Brno Philharmonic. Brno Philharmonic is still housed in the Fellowship House, which for this purpose does not. Place for the design of the new building of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra was chosen plot where the current parking lot, which is close to the Guildhall. In 1992 he founded the Association for the construction of a concert hall, which has since been seeking to build Janáček Cultural Centre. Concert hall with excellent acoustics, which is missing in Brno. The first attempt was in 1989, when it was announced architectural competition for a new building project was just prior to the commencement of construction works dropped. In 2003, the Statutory City of Brno announces an urban-architectural competition for the design of the building Janáček Cultural Centre, whose subject was the urban design of the entire area between the streets Besední, cheerful and Hotel International. Entering the competition was also the draft annex of the hotel International. The reasons for choosing this property was the strongest ties to the Meeting House., Position in the city center in a neighborhood with other major institutions, well-connected to public transport, the opportunity to realize the capacity underground parking. This year were started construction work on this place that has become a new building. The overall implementation takes place in two stages. In the first phase are carried out underground three underground floors used for parking. In the second phase confronts Janáček Cultural Centre. This competition for JKC winning studio M1. In the first round of the competition envisaged the demolition substation at the International Hotel and expanding the plot. In the second round it was only a plot parking spot without significant interference with the surrounding space. This version is valid to this day.

Topic of proposal is to complete block of houses on the edge of historical centre. The centre continues in Brno’s ring road. Blocks are characteristic of having features like: ledge, commercial ground floor, following street line, ridge of roof, frontage face with regular rhythm of windows and same height of ledges on each floor. All of this determines rules of completion of the block. Could concert hall be as significant in the organism of the city that it doesn't have to follow mentioned rules? Following of features appearing in surrounding could stand for negative perception of expression of concert hall. There has to be effort not to create just typical administrative building in which concert hall is built in.

The locality is situated on the Veselá street in the historic centre near to Besední dům – the main seat of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. The site adjacent to the unfinished housing estates was chosen in a competition authority in 2003 primarily thanks to the position next to Besední dům. I tried to create a variant solution which could offer insight into the issue. The aim was to design a functional, operationally and economically less demanding object where the hall has excellent acoustics for classical orchestral music with a capacity of about 1000 visitors.