"Slavonic Dances" is an early work of Dvo?ák (Czech: Antonín Leopold Dvo?ák, September 8, 1841 - May 1, 1904). Dvo?ák came from a humble background. His father opened a small inn and also ran a butchering business. Dvo?ák showed musical talent as a child, but received music education very late. He only entered the Prague National Theater Orchestra to play viola at the age of 25. He wrote a lot of music in the past ten years, but there were no successful works. It wasn't until 1874 that Dvo?ák participated in a music competition in order to obtain a scholarship. One of the judges on the jury passed away. A replacement judge discovered something unique in Dvo?ák's music. He tried to Against all odds, the jury was persuaded to award the Austrian National Prize to Dvo?ák. This judge was the composer Brahms. Two years later, Dvo?ák won the prize again. On the recommendation of Brahms and the critic Hanslick, he received a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Culture. This is a rare record of Hanslick's intellectual talent and philanthropic deeds. What interested Brahms in Dvo?ák's music was the fresh national flavor, from which he could hear the youthful vitality coming from life. In 1877, Brahms introduced Dvo?ák to the German publisher Shimrock, who asked him to write a set of dances based on the model of Brahms's "Hungarian Dances", and the performance was in the form of a piano duet. After Dvo?ák accepted the manuscript, it took him only two months to write eight folk-style dance pieces. During the creation process, he found that these pieces were very suitable for orchestral music, so he simply wrote two sets of manuscripts, one for piano duets. , one set is orchestral, and the work numbers are all 46. From that time to now, orchestral "Slavonic Dances" were popular, and there were not many opportunities for duets to perform.

The first "Slavic Dances" was published in 1878. It was quickly welcomed by people and spread abroad. It was even more successful in Britain and Germany than at home. It is simple, cheerful and enthusiastic. The national style was refreshing. Famous conductors Buluo and Richter expressed high respect for Dvo?ák. He began to become an internationally renowned composer when he was 37 years old. Eight years later, Dvo?ák wrote the second "Slavic Dances", which also contained eight national-style dances.

Although "Slavic Dances" is named "Dance Music", it is not practical music used to accompany dancers, but an orchestral music written by the composer in the form of folk dance music, which belongs to the concert hall music. Writing short lyrical works in the form of folk dance music is a common method of Romantic music. Chopin's Mazurkas and Polonius, Weber's Allemande, and Brahms' Hungarian Dances all belong to this type of music. In these small pieces of music named after dance music, the composer deliberately pursued lyrical melodies and used them to directly appeal to emotions, making these dance music pure lyrical works.

Except for the second piece, the eight pieces of music in the first episode of "Slavic Dances" all use typical Czech dances, including polka, Friant, Sushetska and ska. Cheena dance music. Dvo?ák only absorbed the most basic musical component of dance music - rhythm when writing these dance music. He did not directly use folk dance music tunes and folk song tunes. The melody of the dance music was created according to the corresponding folk dance music style. Enthusiasm and joy are the main elements in the first episode of " The emotional tone of Slavonic Dances.

The first episode of "Slavic Dances" was a success. The publisher saw its commercial value and invited Dvo?ák to write another set of such works, but was rejected. Dvo?ák's reason was , the same thing cannot be done repeatedly, and without the drive of inspiration, nothing valuable will be produced. He then turned to the creation of operas, symphonies and chamber music. It was not until eight years later that he wrote a second set of "Slavic Dances", also eight pieces. Only three of these eight dances still use Czech folk dance music. The others include Slovak Otczmek dance, Polonaise, Yugoslav dance Kolo dance and Ukrainian Dumka dance. After eight years, Dvo?ák’s music style has changed. Youthful and joyful emotions have receded to a secondary position, replaced by deep and melancholy lyricism. The most representative song in this episode is the second song: Doom Card dance music.

Dumka was not originally a dance music, but a narrative folk song originating from Ukraine. It has a sad and melancholy style, with fast alternating rhythms in the middle of the paragraphs. Dumka is popular in Ukraine and Poland, and throughout Slavic areas, including Russia, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, and Bulgaria. Dvo?ák seemed to be very interested in this melancholy folk music form. He wrote three Dumkas in two sets of Slavic dances, as well as a string sextet and piano quintet "Dumka" , also wrote the piano piece "Dumka and Friant". The piano trio "Dumka" contains six Dumka movements. The Dumka in E minor discussed here has a melancholy mood, with a cheerful and lively contrasting passage in the middle. The tone of the music is based on a swaying melody. The melody has gentle fluctuations and is graceful and slender. The inner sadness is revealed little by little in the tranquil atmosphere. It is not exaggerated or overt, showing the sentimental and melancholy side of the Slavic personality.

In sharp contrast to the Dumka in E minor is the eighth piece of the first episode, the Friante in G minor. This piece of music is warm and brilliant, breathtakingly fast, with fierce syncopated rhythms and strong intensity contrast, forming a joyful and warm folk joy scene.