| Traditional European dances were mixed with the habanera, a popular dance from Cuba, to form a new style, the milonga. |
| Because its African influences are done very discrete, habanera offers with the middle-class men a music of the country, without being sullied too much with colors mulattos. |
| Its five movements are driven by the vigorous rhythms of Spanish dances, including the lilting habanera of the opening. |
| An instance of the use of castanets in opera occurs in the habanera in Carmen. |
| At this point starts to appear a new musical form resulting from habanera with its roots of Candombé: the milonga. |
| From habanera, tango borrows its characteristic rhythm, this by adding the colors frays to him which are brought to him by the various immigrant cultures. |
