“To dance is human, to polka is divine” K.D. Lang, Canadian Singer-Songwriter
If you think that the polka is originally a Polish dance, then you are way off! This popular dance is one of the cultural treasures of another small middle European country. If you would like to know more about the origins of this Czech dance, then browse our sheet music & scores, and explore all the marvellous Polkas Stretta has to offer!
It is no longer known exactly where and when the polka came to be, but from the early 19th century the predecessor of the polka, the “Nimra”, was becoming very popular. The next development was the “Maděra”, which was then renamed to the “Půlka”, which was later renamed the Polka.
The polka was already well known around Europe, and by the 1840s, and it had become one of the favourite dances in the courts of Vienna. Johann Strauss I was also fascinated by the polka in Prague, and subsequently composed several polkas himself. The polka was also very popular with the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, who composed polkas for piano, and also used them in his symphonic and operatic works including Vltava and The Bartered Bride.
Like many other folk dances, the polka found its way into the ballets of the 19th century, in the form of the “Polka Hongroise” or “French Polka”, particularly in works by Léo Delibes. In Vienna the “Polka Schnell” or “Quick Polka” was also popular for a long time, often penned by Johann Strauss II.
One of the most famous polka melodies, which has travelled the world in many different versions, is Jaromír Vejvoda’s “Škoda lásky” known also as “Rosamunde” or “The Beer Barrel Polka”.
Hal Leonard Flex-Band
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices); drums ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 806778
7er-Besetzung
for: Flexible wind band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351624
Polka française für Orchester - 2. Auflage
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 643299
Young Band Edition
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1689946
Schnellpolka
Kurt Pascher und seine Böhmerwälder Musikanten
for: Small wind band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 679234
Polka
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 208100
Gitti und Erica
Polka
for: Small wind band; voice ad lib.
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 208088
Polka
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 208083
Die Egerländer Rebellen
for: Concert band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 1652336
für Streichquartett
String Attack
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 132544
Clarinet 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 549245
for: String orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 218201
Polka für Blaskapelle
for: Small wind band
Flugelhorn 1 in Bb (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1556380
Polka
Kurt Pascher und seine Original Böhmerwälder Musikanten
Edition Bergsee
for: Small wind band
Score, conductor's part, orchestral parts
Item no.: 1557357
Polka
Originalausgabe von "Hergolshäuser Musikanten"
for: Small wind band
Score, conductor's part, orchestral parts
Item no.: 1566945
Klavierausgabe
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 643325
Polka
for: Concert band
Score, conductor's part, orchestral parts
Item no.: 1557294
for: Small wind band
Score
Item no.: 562868
Single part Tuba 1 (C)
Item no.: 549260
Single part Trombone 3 (C)
Item no.: 549258
for: Baritone horn (C)
Item no.: 549252
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 549249
for: Diatonic accordion
Item no.: 214672
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 373874
Solo für Bläserduo und Orchester
for: Small wind band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 458437
Polka
for: Small wind band
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 472642
Polka
for: Small wind band
Single part Flugelhorn 2
Item no.: 472635
for: Small wind band
Item no.: 370796
Art Of Brass Vienna
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Item no.: 114759
Goldene Zither 599
for: Zither
Item no.: 563186
for: Small wind band
Item no.: 492345
for: Diatonic accordion
Item no.: 140804
Single part (Trombone solo)
Item no.: 147607
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 290592
for: Diatonic accordion
Item no.: 299033
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 127304
for: 5 woodwinds (quintet)
Item no.: 365575
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 444193
Michael Klostermann und seine Musikanten
for: Small wind band
Single part Baritone horn (C)
Item no.: 1657655
for: Mandolin orchestra
Score
Item no.: 630358
Deine Blasmusik Edition
for: 4 brass instruments
Single part tuba (C)
Item no.: 779267
for: Small wind band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 278585
for: Small wind band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1616107
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 127164
Diletto Musicale
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 304999
Böhmische Polka
for: Small wind band
Score, Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1686673
Michael Klostermann und seine Musikanten
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 958744
Michael Klostermann und seine Musikanten
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 958002
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