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Habanera ("music or dance of Havana") is the popular name for "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (French pronunciation: [lamuʁ ɛt‿œ̃n‿wazo ʁəbɛl]; "Love is a rebellious bird"), an aria from Georges Bizet's 1875 opéra comique Carmen. It is the entrance aria of the title character, a mezzo-soprano role, in scene 5 of the first act.
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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.
The Toreador Song, also known as the Toreador March or March of the Toreadors, is the popular name for the aria " Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre" ("I return your toast to you"), from the French opera Carmen, composed by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
The piece contains an adaptation of the Aragonaise, Habanera, an interlude, Seguidilla, and the Gypsy Dance. Sarasate chose specifically the music with a Spanish character. [1] A performance takes approximately 12 minutes. [4] The Carmen Fantasy is one of Sarasate's best-known works [1] and is often performed
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; Habanera, a work for piano of 1885 by Emmanuel Chabrier, arranged for orchestra by him in 1888; Habanera, composition for flute or violin & piano by Maurice Ravel
This is a discography of audio and video recordings of Carmen, a French-language opera by Georges Bizet. The opera premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875. Carmen is one of the most frequently recorded operas, dating back to a near-complete German acoustical recording in 1908.
The habanera was the first of many Cuban music genres which enjoyed periods of popularity in the United States, and reinforced and inspired the use of tresillo-based rhythms in African American music. [b] From the perspective of African American music, the habanera rhythm can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat. [19]