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==Music== The [[Beguine (dance)|beguine]] is a dance and music form, similar to a slow [[rhumba]]. In his book ''American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900β1950'', musicologist and composer [[Alec Wilder]], described "Begin the Beguine" as <blockquote>a maverick, it is an unprecedented experiment and one which, to this day, after hearing it hundreds of times, I cannot sing or whistle or play from start to finish without the printed music ... about the sixtieth measure I find myself muttering another title, 'End the Beguine'.<ref>Wilder, Alec. ''American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900β1950'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972), p.240</ref></blockquote>
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