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  2. Tresillo (rhythm) - Wikipedia

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    The composite pattern of tresillo and the main beats is commonly known as the habanera, [6] congo, [7] tango-congo, [8] or tango. [9] The habanera rhythm is the duple-pulse correlate of the vertical hemiola (above). The three cross-beats of the hemiola are generated by grouping triple pulses in twos: 6 pulses ÷ 2 = 3 cross-beats. Tresillo is ...

  3. Contradanza - Wikipedia

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    The Argentine milonga and tango makes use of the habanera rhythm of a dotted quarter-note followed by three eighth-notes, with an accent on the first and third notes. [34] As the consistent rhythmic foundation of the bass line in Argentine tango the habanera lasted for a relatively short time until a variation, noted by Roberts, began to ...

  4. Milonga (music) - Wikipedia

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    The strength of the first beat weakened the fourth giving an almost waltz-like feel to milonga: one-two-three (four), one-two-three (four). Habanera is a slower, more explicit sounding one, two, three-four. At least one modern tango pianist believes the polka influenced the speeding up of the milonga. [3]

  5. Latin jazz - Wikipedia

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    The habanera was the first written music to be rhythmically based on an African motif. The habanera rhythm (also known as congo, [1] tango-congo, [2] or tango [3]) can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat. Wynton Marsalis considers tresillo to be the New Orleans "clave," although technically, the pattern is only half a ...

  6. Afro-Cuban jazz - Wikipedia

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    The habanera was the first written music to be rhythmically based on an African motif. The habanera rhythm (also known as "congo" [5] [3]: 5 or "tango") [6] can be thought of as a combination of tresillo and the backbeat.

  7. Habanera (aria) - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Spanish tinge - Wikipedia

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    What is known in Latin music as the habanera rhythm is also known as the congo, [2] tango-congo, [3] and tango. [4] Morton categorized his compositions in three groups: blues, stomps, and Spanish tinge, for those with habanera rhythms. Tunes with the "tinge" include "New Orleans Blues" (a.k.a.

  9. Tango - Wikipedia

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    Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries from a combination of Argentine Milonga, Spanish-Cuban Habanera, and Uruguayan Candombe celebrations. [1]