Noun
a Cuban dance in duple time
music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera
Source: WordNetAbout this sound Play ( help · info ) New Orleans native Louis Moreau Gottschalk 's piano piece "Ojos Criollos (Danse Cubaine)" (1860) was influenced by the composer's studies in Cuba: the habanera rhythm is clearly heard in the left hand. Source: Internet
After her provocative habanera, with its persistent insidious rhythm and changes of key, the fate motif sounds in full when Carmen throws her flower to José before departing. Source: Internet
After her beguiling "Seguidilla" provokes José to an exasperated high A sharp shout, Carmen's escape is preceded by the brief but disconcerting reprise of a fragment from the habanera. Source: Internet
Bolden's band is credited with creating the big four, the first syncopated bass drum pattern to deviate from the standard on-the-beat march. citation As the example below shows, the second half of the big four pattern is the habanera rhythm. Source: Internet
He also incorporated the Spanish Tinge in his performances, which gave a habanera or tango rhythm to his music. Source: Internet
John Storm Roberts states that the musical genre habanera "reached the U.S. twenty years before the first rag was published." Source: Internet