Encuentro

Danza Encuentro is a romantic character piece written in the Puerto Rican nationalistic style called "Danza Puertorriquena". This instrumental genre developed during the nineteen century has its roots in the Spanish Contra-danza. During mid nineteen century the dance received influence from the "habanera cubana", the European romantic movement, and the Afro-Caribbean rhythms already developed in the island by that time. The Puerto Rican Danza reached its maximum development as an instrumental genre separated from the dance under the hands of Manuel Gregorio Tavarez known as the father of the Puerto Rican Danza, and later under the hands of Juan Morel-Campos who finally established the structure and its unique style writing around three hundred Danzas.