Arabesque (Turkish music)

Arabesque is an oriental style of music, act whose sentimental lyrics of unrequited love, the suffering of the world and the particular concerns of everyday life. Arabesque is since the late 1960s, a part of Turkish pop music and emerged in Turkey from the mixing of Turkish folk music, Arabic sounds and Western pop music.

Play and distribution

In Turkey, Arabesque was popular in the 1940s by Kaydar Tatlıyay and other artists. The 1948 procured prohibition of Arabic music was not successful because many Turks received on their radios Radio Cairo and Arabic music continued to enjoy high popularity. Mid-1960 were incorporated into the arabesque music with musicians such as Ahmet Sezgin, Abdullah Yüce and Hafiz Burhan Sesiyılmaz folk music elements. Müslüm Gürses and other artists added the arabesque music later added Anglo-American rock & roll. Other well-known Turkish artists are Orhan Gencebay, Emrah, Mahsun Kırmızıgül, İbrahim Tatlıses, Ferdi Tayfur, Muhabbet, Ebru Gündes, Özcan Deniz, Azer Bulbul.

A typical orchestra include several violins, an electro baglama (a form of long-necked lute saz with a magnetic cartridge ), a trapezoidal zither kanun, one to two cups drums darbuka, frame drum davul without tambourine or tambourine ( def) and electric bass. In a smaller orchestra accompany accordion, electric and darbuka baglama the singer.