beguine2
(bɪˈgiːn)
[Amer. Fr., f. Fr. béguin (see béguin).]
A kind of popular dance, orig. associated with Martinique; also applied to a kind of syncopated dance rhythm.
| 1935 Cole Porter (song title) Begin the Beguine. 1939 W. Hobson Amer. Jazz Music 53 Jazz rhythms have been partly affected by West Indian rhythms, such as the rhumba, beguine, etc. 1950 J. Vedey Band Leaders xviii. 131 The ‘Beguine’ from Mexico..has an essentially Afro-Spanish flavour. 1961 A. Berkman Singers' Gloss. Show Bus. 8 Beguine, a rhythm used to give a certain amount of ‘lift’ to a sustained melody by doubling up the rhythmic beats... In the Beguine the rhythm instruments repeat the same rhythmic pattern over and over, without variation. |