CONTENTS // Page // I. The Beginnings of Czech Music... 9 // II. The Hussite Period...13 // III. The Post-Hussite Era...15 // IV. Czech Baroque and Pre-Classical Music...20 // V. Classicism...24. // VI. The National Revival—The Pre-Smetana Era...34 // VII. Bedřich Smetana... 38 // VIII. Antonín Dvořák...51 // IX. Zdeněk Fibich...61 // X. The Other Composers of the Second Half of the Nineteenth // Century ...66 // (Vladimir Štěpánek) // XI. The Second Generation of Classical Composers...68 // XII. Between Two Wars...91 // XIII. After Liberation... 112 // (Bohumil Karásek) // Index of Composers... 142