habanera

Habanera or contradanza, a style of Cuban popular dance music of the 19th century. Habanera, a work for violin and piano by Pablo de Sarasate, part of the Spanish Dances.

In Cuba during the 19th century it became known as habanera – the dance of Havana . The name, derived from the city of Havana, Cuba, was coined when European sailors introduced the dance to their home countries, where it became popular with composers, particularly in France and Spain.

The habanera is a dance that takes its name from Havana, Cuba. It's a social dance that Cubans of African descent developed from old European social dances. They added their own twist, creating a dance so popular it traveled back across the Atlantic and became popular in Europe as well as the Americas.

In the 1860s, a Spanish composer, Sebastián Iradier, was visiting Cuba when he fell in love with that music, and wrote several "habanera" songs. One of them was soon very, very famous in Spain (and Cuba, too) as well as Mexico, and from there it gained a big popularity across the world.

Cuba According to preeminent Cuban music historian Alejo Carpentier, the habanera was never called such by the people of Havana (for them it was just the local style of contradanza). It only adopted its present name when it became popular outside of Cuba.

Habanera ("[music or dance] of Havana") is the popular name for "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (French pronunciation: [lamuʁ ɛt‿œ̃ wazo ʁəbɛl]; "Love is a rebellious bird"), an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opéra comique Carmen.

Contradanza (also called contradanza criolla, danza, danza criolla, or habanera) is the Spanish and Spanish-American version of the contradanse, which was an internationally popular style of music and dance in the 18th century, derived from the English country dance and adopted at the court of France.

Cuban musicologist Emilio Grenet calls habanera "perhaps the most universal of our genres" because of its far-reaching influence on the development of many Latin American song forms such as the Argentine tango and its frequently Europeanized treatment in classical music, such as in Georges Bizet's 1875 opera, Carmen, ...

Cuban musicologist Emilio Grenet calls habanera "perhaps the most universal of our genres" because of its far-reaching influence on the development of many Latin American song forms such as the Argentine tango and its frequently Europeanized treatment in classical music, such as in Georges Bizet's 1875 opera, Carmen, ...

“Habanera” (Anna Caterina Antonacci) The opera is set in Seville around the year 1830, and it deals with the love and jealousy of the soldier Don José. Don José is a naïve soldier who forsakes his duties as a soldier and abandons his childhood sweetheart Micaëla as he is seduced by the fiery gypsy factory-girl Carmen.