Polka Polka The polka is originally a Czech dance and genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. The polka remains a popular folk music genre in many European countries, and is performed by folk artists in the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Finland, and to a lesser extent in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Hungary, Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, Russia, and Slovakia. Local varieties of this dance are also found in the Nordic countries, Spain's Basque Country, the United
Pavane (Fauré) 1999 song "Tous Les Maux D'Amour." In turn the S Club 7 song "Natural," an English-language cover version, also sampled "Pavane". Dutch singer Petra Berger used "Pavane" as the musical setting for her song about Marie Antoinette, "Close Your Eyes (He'll Be Just Fine)," on her album "Eternal Woman". Swedish TV films about the fictional police detective Johan Falk featured arranged pop music versions of "Pavane". Pavane (Fauré) The Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50, is a pavane by the French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version