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A genre in religious music in which a poem is sung freely and improvised, without a fixed usul; it has the nature of a vocal taksim.

Related: GazelTekke musikisi (dervish-lodge music)

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The definitions were written in our own words, drawing on sources such as the TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, Yılmaz Öztuna's Encyclopedic Dictionary of Turkish Music and Wikipedia; pitch and interval values follow the Arel-Ezgi-Uzdilek system. This content has not yet been reviewed by an expert; if you spot a mistake, please write to us.

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