This thesis offers a complex overview of the Prague Spring International Music Competition with a detailed focus on the basssoon category.

The topic of this Master’s thesis is term of the French oboe school and then the influence of this specific school on the oboe school in Bohemia. The aim of the thesis is to find validity of this term at present, provide factual informations about French oboe school and write down the own experiences of the author. In the introduction the author explains the meaning of the term French oboe school in this thesis, author represents the aims of the thesis and the reasons for choosing a topic. The first chapter focuses on the term of the French oboe school and its meaning in the context of time. Second chapter describes the historical development of the French oboe school, the French oboe producers and the current system of musical education in France. The third chapter, based on the author's experience, is focused on the French oboists who worked in Bohemia. Czech interpreters who are connected with the French oboe school are mentioned in the fourth chapter. The last chapter describes the author's experience with studying at the Paris National Conservatory of Music and Dance. Gained knowledges are summarized in the end of the thesis.

This thesis starts with the introduction of the general historic moments of postwar Czechoslovakia. Attention is paid to the February 1948, Prague Spring and the events of August 1968. These dates established two waves of emigration from Czechoslovakia. In this context, there are presented personalities of Jiri Pelikan and Pavel Tigrid as leading personalities of exile. The analytical part focuses on the comparison of Tigrid's Svedectvi and Listy published by Jiri Pelikan. Analysis is based on important events in postwar history. The thesis is mainly focused on the different perceptions of the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

The first chapter of this thesis analyzes the marketing mix of Prague Quadrennial 2011. The following part focuses on marketing communication of this cultural event, reflecting the non-professional public. Based on data obtained from marketing research on the festival's perception and the last year's marketing campaign, the aim of this academic work is to propose possible improvements for the next festival's marketing campaign.

This thesis discusses international music competitions, their struggle with their subjectivity, awarded prizes and following up the success of their laureates. In a case study the thesis introduces the International Music Competition Prague Spring, its history and present. The competition is analyzing by using the SWOT analysis and intern analysis methods. Based on its results the thesis suggests solutions in terms of strategic planning, work with media, partners and laureates.

The core of this MA thesis is to map Prague piano trio-ensembles from the beginning of the 20th century up to nowadays. It deals with history of such ensembles like Czech and Smetana Trios including their contemporary successors; it mentions Suk, Foerster, Prague and New Prague Trios, trios containing the name of Antonín Dvořák in its title including new Dvořák Trio renamed from Trio Concertino. Neither renowned Guarneri Trio Prague nor younger ensembles, established in the 1990s and after 2000 (Trio ArteMiss, Kinsky Trio Prague, Orbis Trio i.e.), are absent in the list. This thesis also explores history of the genre of piano trio from 18th century on, presents the way a pianist should work as a chamber player and touches also past and present Czech institutions and organizations supporting performing chamber music in our country. In connection with these aspect the thesis mentions also possibility of new MA studies of chamber music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Finally, the author considers current chamber local and international music industry and its influence on artistic work in a piano trio.

This thesis starts with the introduction of the general historic moments of postwar Czechoslovakia. Attention is paid to the February 1948, Prague Spring and the events of August 1968. These dates established two waves of emigration from Czechoslovakia. In this context, there are presented personalities of Jiří Pelikán and Pavel Tigrid as leading personalities of exile. The analytical part focuses on the comparison of Tigrid's Svědectví and Listy published by Jiří Pelikán. Analysis is based on important events in postwar history. The thesis is mainly focused on the different perceptions of the Prague Spring and Charta 77.

Diploma thesis with the topic Illustration cycle in print called Pán rady (1505) deals with issue of illustration in old printed books, but also in wider perspective with text, its history and its mediation via manuscripts and print. Art-historical background of the author is combined with informations from other disciplines like library science, history of literature and history. As woodcuts are known as an import from Strassbourg, formal analysis is focused on finding paralels in local illustrated books production. Surprisingly one of the models used for woodcuts is copperplate by Dutch engraver known as Master FVB. There are several specifics when iconography of woodcuts is concerned. In the first place are all the allegorical figures depicted as male - despite the fact that in most other artworks is Fortune and other figures traditionally shown as female. Other interesting aspect is lack of female element on the illustrations at all, with one exception where depicted woman is most likely prostitute. This can be explained as an awareness of the strict morals utraquistic townsmen in Prague. There are quite a few parallels with contemporary tendencies in this sort of moralising literature and its influence on art. Illustrations from Pán rady are preceding popular protestant imaginary warning from...

This master thesis deals with the question, whether the town Říčany performs functions of the local centre for its residents. Part of the text is devoted to the transformation taking place around the Czech capital. The paper uses the theoretical framework of Time geography. Using a qualitative questionnaire survey targeted at families with children, the work is trying to identify, where the residents localize their activities. The thesis also attempts to recognize the activity localisation mechanisms. Another goal was to find differences between various categories of the respondents. Children and adults working in Říčany usually localize their activities close to their home. Adults working in Prague have an elliptic activity space, in which home is however main station. One of the contributions of this work is the typology of four groups of households. In addition to long-term residents and two types of suburbanites, the group of "grounded residents" was defined. Although they have moved to the town rather recently, they usually live in the older parts of the town and localize there most of their life.

Vymezení pojmů kulturní dědictví, průmyslové dědictví, průmyslová revoluce, průmyslová archeologie, technické památky. Mezinárodní organizace a mezinárodní dohody průmyslového dědictví. Památková péče v České republice. Druhy mlýnů. Historie vzniku mlýnů. Historie mlýnů v Praze. Současnost mlýnů v Praze. Využití pražských mlýnů v cestovním ruchu. Doporučení pro mlýny.