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Definition of Habanera
1. Noun. Music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera.
2. Noun. A Cuban dance in duple time.
Definition of Habanera
1. Noun. A style of music from Cuba. ¹
2. Noun. A dance performed to this music. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Habanera
1. a Cuban dance [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Habanera
Literary usage of Habanera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"LA habanera Opera in three acts by Raoul Laparra. Text by Raoul Laparra. Л STORY
of legendary character told in three ^"^ acts. ..."
2. Opera Stories ...: In a Few Words, the Stories (divided Into Acts) of about by Henry Lowell Mason (1920)
"LA habanera ACT I After a drinking scene between four men, and an exchange of
musical phrases hardly long enough to be entitled a love duet between Pedro ..."
3. Afro-American Folksongs: A Study in Racial and National Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1914)
"The Cuban habanera, which has an African rhythmical foundation (the melodic
superstructure having been reared by the white natives of the southern countries ..."
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