habanera

How To Use habanera In A Sentence

• She's fashioned an album of salsa, calypso, habanera, mambo, meringue and other Caribbean rhythms.
• My husband likes a little catsup in his coctel de camron. .also with extra habanera! I'd rather eat glass than....
• 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. The Haitian-Born Rhythm Revolution
• And we hear in the left hand this habanera type of rhythm, which he said was essential to New Orleans music, this Spanish feeling. Marcus Roberts: 'Playing The History Of Jazz'
• Can a lot of sopranos chestily growl the Habañera?
• 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
• By the time Bizet used it in the signature aria of "Carmen" in 1875, the habanera had become shorthand for Spanish music. The Haitian-Born Rhythm Revolution
• The moment that she accedes to her husband, donning the native mantilla of the island to sing the Habañera, he collapses from the lethal results of his mendacity.
• The final work on the disc is Dos Danzas Latinas, an eloquent wind octet in two movements - Habanera and Samba.
• Nevertheless, we can hear snatches of dances: bluegrass fiddle, ‘slow dancing’ from the Fifties, jazz riff, habanera or Latin rock, and so on.