habanera

IPA: hˈæbʌnˈɛrʌ

Examples of "habanera" in Sentences

Featuring classical music, Cuban habanera dance music, pop, jazz and tango.
If you look at the left hand on a piece of sheet music for a habanera, it's there.
In the 19th century, the homegrown habanera was the sound of the Spanish Americas.
My husband likes a little catsup in his coctel de camron. .also with extra habanera!
By the time Bizet used it in the signature aria of "Carmen" in 1875, the habanera had become shorthand for Spanish music.
And we hear in the left hand this habanera type of rhythm, which he said was essential to New Orleans music, this Spanish feeling.
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.
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.