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The fasil is a suite
Suite

In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet, or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements ....
 in Ottoman classical music
Ottoman classical music

Ottoman Turks classical music developed in palaces, mosques, and Mevlevi lodges of the Ottoman Empire. Above all a vocal music, Classical Turkish Music traditionally accompanies a solo singer with a small instrumental ensemble....
. It is similar to the Arabic nawba and waslah
Waslah

A waslah is a suite in Arabic music. It comprises eight or more movements such as muwashshah, taqsim, layali, mawwal, qasida, dawr, sama'i, Pesrev, dulab, and popular songs....
.

A fasil generally includes movements such as taksim
Taqsim

Taqsim is the name of a melodic improvisation style that could be metric or non-metric, which usually precedes a composition in Arabic music and Turkish music....
, pesrev
Pesrev

Pesrev , Pisrev , peshrev, or pishrev is an instrumental form in Turkish classical music. It is the name of the first piece of music played during a group performance called a fasil ....
, sarki
Sarki

Sarki may refer to* Sirki, a Sindhi tribe in Pakistan* Sarki, a well-dwelling snake slain by the mythological prince Bayajidda* Sarki, a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music...
, beste
Beste (Turkish music)

The beste is a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music. It was a movement of the fasil, or suite.Beste was one of the main forms of fasil , and its lyrics came from the Ottoman Turkish language poetry forms gazel and murabba ....
, kar
Kar (Turkish music)

The kar is a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music. It was a movement of the fasil, or suite.External links*...
, agir semâ'î, yürük semâ'î, gazel
Gazel

Gazel is a form of Turkish music that has almost died out. While in other parts of the Central Asian world, gazel is synonymous with ghazal, in Turkey it denotes an improvised form of solo singing that is sometimes accompanied by the ney, ud, or tanbur....
 and saz semâ'î, played continuously without interludes and interconnected through aranagme arrangements.

True Fasil is a musical act distinct from the commercialized performance of oriental pop and folk songs found at a meyhane
Meyhane

A meyhane is a traditional restaurant or bar in Turkey or the Balkans region. It serves alcoholic beverages with meze and traditional foods. It is analogous to a Greece ouzeri....
s and tavern
Tavern

A tavern or pot-house is, loosely, a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and, more than likely, also be served food, though not licensed to put up guests....
s, which have come to be also referred to by the same name.








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The fasil is a suite
Suite

In music, a suite is an ordered set of instrumental or orchestral pieces normally performed in a concert setting rather than as accompaniment; they may be extracts from an opera, ballet, or incidental music to a play or film , or they may be entirely original movements ....
 in Ottoman classical music
Ottoman classical music

Ottoman Turks classical music developed in palaces, mosques, and Mevlevi lodges of the Ottoman Empire. Above all a vocal music, Classical Turkish Music traditionally accompanies a solo singer with a small instrumental ensemble....
. It is similar to the Arabic nawba and waslah
Waslah

A waslah is a suite in Arabic music. It comprises eight or more movements such as muwashshah, taqsim, layali, mawwal, qasida, dawr, sama'i, Pesrev, dulab, and popular songs....
.

A fasil generally includes movements such as taksim
Taqsim

Taqsim is the name of a melodic improvisation style that could be metric or non-metric, which usually precedes a composition in Arabic music and Turkish music....
, pesrev
Pesrev

Pesrev , Pisrev , peshrev, or pishrev is an instrumental form in Turkish classical music. It is the name of the first piece of music played during a group performance called a fasil ....
, sarki
Sarki

Sarki may refer to* Sirki, a Sindhi tribe in Pakistan* Sarki, a well-dwelling snake slain by the mythological prince Bayajidda* Sarki, a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music...
, beste
Beste (Turkish music)

The beste is a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music. It was a movement of the fasil, or suite.Beste was one of the main forms of fasil , and its lyrics came from the Ottoman Turkish language poetry forms gazel and murabba ....
, kar
Kar (Turkish music)

The kar is a vocal genre in Ottoman classical music. It was a movement of the fasil, or suite.External links*...
, agir semâ'î, yürük semâ'î, gazel
Gazel

Gazel is a form of Turkish music that has almost died out. While in other parts of the Central Asian world, gazel is synonymous with ghazal, in Turkey it denotes an improvised form of solo singing that is sometimes accompanied by the ney, ud, or tanbur....
 and saz semâ'î, played continuously without interludes and interconnected through aranagme arrangements.

True Fasil is a musical act distinct from the commercialized performance of oriental pop and folk songs found at a meyhane
Meyhane

A meyhane is a traditional restaurant or bar in Turkey or the Balkans region. It serves alcoholic beverages with meze and traditional foods. It is analogous to a Greece ouzeri....
s and tavern
Tavern

A tavern or pot-house is, loosely, a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and, more than likely, also be served food, though not licensed to put up guests....
s, which have come to be also referred to by the same name.

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  • Waslah
    Waslah

    A waslah is a suite in Arabic music. It comprises eight or more movements such as muwashshah, taqsim, layali, mawwal, qasida, dawr, sama'i, Pesrev, dulab, and popular songs....
  • Muwashshah
    Muwashshah

    Muwashshah or muwa??ah is an Arabic poetry form, as well as a secular Arabic music musical genre in the Mashriq of the Arab world using muwa??ah texts as lyrics....
  • Andalusi nawba
  • Nuubaat
    Nuubaat

    Nuubaat is a form of Algerian classical music. The term itself is the plural form of nuba , a suite of old Al-Andalus musical pieces. It is these multi-movement works that give nuubaat its name....