English language

How to pronounce habanera in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Type of social dancing
Type Words
Type of dance music

Examples of habanera

habanera
The dance style of the habanera is slower and more stately than the danza.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the 1840s, the habanera emerged as a languid vocal song using the contradanza rhythm.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The habanera developed out of the contradanza in the early 19th century.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Habanera is the name used outside of Cuba, for the Cuban contradanza.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He expanded to pickled dill and habanera scapes the second year.
From the democratandchronicle.com
If you want to spice things up, ask for the homemade green sauce, made from pureed habanera peppers.
From the washingtonpost.com
It's a brilliant coup, complete with Spanish habanera, glittering splashes of coloratura and ironic vocal rhapsody.
From the guardian.co.uk
His most famous work is La bella cubana, a habanera.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The rhythm is similar to that of the tango, and some believe the habanera is the musical father of the tango.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera
  • A Cuban dance in duple time
  • Habanera is the popular name for "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" ("Love is a rebellious bird"), one of the most famous arias from Georges Bizet's 1875 opera Carmen. It is the entrance aria of the title character, a mezzo-soprano role, in scene 5 of the first act...
  • The habanera is a genre of Cuban popular dance music of the 19th century. It is a creolized form which developed from the contradanza. It has a characteristic "Habanera rhythm", and is performed with sung lyrics. It was the first dance music from Cuba to be exported all over the world.
  • A style of music from Cuba; A dance performed to this music
  • Cuban dance of Spanish origin, the first major Latin influence on U.S. music around the time of the Spanish-American War. Provided the rhythmic basis of the modern tango, which makes its influence in 20th century American music difficult to trace.
  • 1929. Vn, piano. Manuscript. CBC Expo-12 (Haendel)/Radio Canada International 612/4-Anthology of Canadian Music 30 (Dubeau)/Carleton Sound CD-1009
  • Moderate duple meter dance of Cuban origin, popular in the nineteenth century; based on characteristic rhythmic figure.
  • Owing its name to the Cuban capital Havana (in Spanish, La Habana), where, at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, the dance developed, with its slow tempo, it was not long before Spanish soldiers brought it back home to their native country where these songs, with their compelling mix of ...