Arabesque (genre)
Arabesque is an oriental style of music whose sentimental lyrics deal with unfulfilled love, suffering from the world and the concrete worries of everyday life. Arabesque has been a component of Turkish pop music since the late 1960s and originated in Turkey from the mixture of Turkish folk music, Arabic sounds and Western pop music.
How to play and spread
In Turkey, arabesque became popular in the 1940s through Haydar Tatlıyay (1890–1963) and other artists. The ban on Arabic-language music in 1948 was unsuccessful, as many Turks were listening to Radio Cairo on their radios and Arabic music continued to enjoy great popularity. In the mid-1960s, folk music elements were incorporated into arabesque music by musicians such as Ahmet Sezgin , Abdullah Yüce and Hafız Burhan Sesiyılmaz . Müslüm Gürses and other artists later added Anglo-American rock & roll to arabesque music. Other well-known Turkish singers are Orhan Gencebay , Emrah , Mahsun Kırmızıgül , İbrahim Tatlıses , Ferdi Tayfur , Muhabbet , Ebru Gündeş , Özcan Deniz , Azer Bülbül , Hakkı Bulut .
A typical orchestra includes several violins, an electro bağlama (a form of the long-necked saz lute with a magnetic pickup), a trapeze zither kanun , one or two beaker drums darbuka , the frame drum davul without a bell ring or with a bell ring ( def ) and an electric bass . Accordion, electro bağlama and darbuka accompany the singer in a smaller orchestra .
The arabesque is connected to the subsequent Özgün Müzik through the roots of the arabesque in the simple population .
literature
- Nedim Karakayalı: Arabesk. In: Virginia Danielson, Dwight Reynolds, Scott Marcus (Eds.): The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Volume 6: The Middle East. Garland, London 2002, pp. 255-259
- Martin Stokes: The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Karakayalı, p. 257