polka

     

The polka is a fast, lively Central European ance, and also a genre of dance music, familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, and is still a common genre in Czech and Slovakian folk music. Polka is still a very common folkmusic genre in Poland. In light classical music, many polkas were composed by both Johann Strauss I and his son Johann Strauss II; a couple of well-known ones were composed by Bedřich Smetana, and Jaromír Vejvoda was the author of "Škoda lásky" ("Roll Out the Barrel").

Trivia about polka

  • Dance or dot (5)
  • Roll out the "beer barrel" & name this "wunnerful, wunnerful" Bohemian dance
  • "King of the Waltz" Johann Strauss Jr. wrote in other dance forms too, like the "Tritsch-Tratsch" this
  • This lively dance originated among the peasants of Bohemia in the 1830s
  • The album heard here won a 1998 Grammy as Best Album of this style of dance music:
  • "The Lawrence Welk Show" wasn't afraid to roll out a wunnerful "beer barrel" version of this dance
  • A design dot used in regular patterns

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