Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A slow Cuban dance in duple time.
- noun The music for this dance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slow Spanish dance in triple rhythm; also, the music for such a dance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A style of music from
Cuba . - noun A dance performed to this music.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera
- noun a Cuban dance in duple time
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Featuring classical music, Cuban habanera dance music, pop, jazz and tango.
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Scott Joplin and W.C. Handy, among other composers of early jazz, worked with a new sort of syncopation that drew, somewhat, on the rhythm of the habanera, a Cuban dance music that became fashionable enough in 19th-century Europe that it provided the lilting bass line for the famous aria in Bizet 's Carmen.
When Cuba Invaded America Eric Felten 2010
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If you look at the left hand on a piece of sheet music for a habanera, it's there.
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By the time Bizet used it in the signature aria of "Carmen" in 1875, the habanera had become shorthand for Spanish music.
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The most fertile Cuban musical form turned out to be the habanera, a lilting dance form that evolved out of the old French Contre-danse in the years following the Haitian revolution.
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My husband likes a little catsup in his coctel de camron. .also with extra habanera!
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My husband likes a little catsup in his coctel de camron. .also with extra habanera!
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My husband likes a little catsup in his coctel de camron. .also with extra habanera!
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And we hear in the left hand this habanera type of rhythm, which he said was essential to New Orleans music, this Spanish feeling.
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In the 19th century, the homegrown habanera was the sound of the Spanish Americas.
MaryW commented on the word habanera
From a novel set (mostly) in Buenos Aires in 1913-1920:, this is a flashback to, probably late 19th century:
Carolina de Robertis, The Gods of Tango (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), pp. 115-16September 4, 2016