MERINGUE

The meringue is a musical style, usually of happy tone. Tumar at dominican  republic, where more you listen to his caracteristic melody.
the origin of the   word Meringue goes back to the epoch of cologne and comes of  the word meringue, name of an one belonging to the african cultures than, it touched the atlantic Colombian cost.
the beutiful island that contains the countries of  harti  and the dommican republic has produced big sounds trough the centories. within the evironment of the afro caribbean misic for dancing, the dominican style of the meringue has played a role very  important. like the quadrille and the danzon caban, the meringue emerged at james  is zone. Of  the European contradanse durmg half the nmeteenth century an kept on absorbing more african and creole elements.
The meringue is a typical danes of the dominican republic from where you went a way spreading out. His origin continues to be a little bit undertain, althoungh we know that you come from the quadrille, the  mazurka and the waldiz European whosa in fluence spread over hanti, Venezuela and west Indie.
According to some, it grew allike a creole mclody after the battle from talanquera where the dominican succeeded. The meringue comes from an one belonging to the parts of a so- called melody havanan UPA , that you passed puerto rico, from where you got to st. Doming aro und the middle of the century passed, betwen. 1838 and 1849. This dance had a so - called mosement meringue that you gave him to the name the present - doy  dance. The meringue not yet was popolarm 1844, bet in 1850 already it come into  fashion and you  were ok accepted between the Dominican. A campaing aginst the merengue triggered off in the  decade of 1850, that you already had gone away spreadmg out  between the popular arowds but that you were rejected by the upper dass for nhis imkage  with the african music and behind his picaresque  letters and vulgar persons