CONTENTS 1. Czech history............................................................................................ ................................................................................................... ..............................................................................................3 “The Historical Beat of Europe’sHeart” ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... ..............................................4 2. Folk music in Bohemia and Moravia ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... .......................................33 Pilková Zdeňka. “Eighteenth Century Folk Music in the Czech Lands: Comments on the State of Research”...............................................................………………………....…........34 3. Early music: from the Middle Ages to the Baroque era ................................................................................................... ..................................…................................................................ .38 Kouba, Jan and Tomislav Volek. “A Historical Survey of Czech Music.” Part I ................................................................................................... ....….................................................................39 4. The Classical era ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... ........…...............................................................47 Kouba, Jan and Tomislav Volek. “A Historical Survey of Czech Music.” Part II ................................................................................................... ....…................................................................48 5. The Czech lands 1800-1860 ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... ..........................................................60 Tyrrell, John. “Czech Nationalism”....................................................................................... ...........................................................................................…....... ..............................................................61 6. Bedřich Smetana ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... .......................................................................….67 Clapham, John. “Bedřich Smetana”........................................................................................... ................................................................................................... .......................................................….68 7. Antonín Dvořák............................................................................................. ................................................................................................... ...............................….................................................83 Clapham John. “Biographical Sketch”............................................................................................ ................................................................................................... ........................................................84 8. The generation of the 1890s ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... .…...................................................95 Beckerman, Michael. “In Search of Czechness in Music”............................................................................................. ................................................................….................................. .................96 9. Leoš Janáček ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... ............................................................................….105 10. Between the Wars: “New Music” in Czechoslovakia ................................................................................................... .................................................…................................................. .106 11. Popular music in Czechoslovakia after 1968 ................................................................................................... ................................................................................................... .................….107 Jirous, Ivan Martin. “Report on the Third Czech Musical Festival.” ................................................................................................... ............................................................................................108 Wilson, Paul. “What’s it Like Making Rock’n’Roll in a Police State?” ................................................................................................... ..........................................................................................134