The ''fasıl'' is a

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Ottoman classical music Ottoman music ( tr, Osmanlı müziği) or Turkish classical music ( tr, Türk sanat müziği) is the tradition of classical music originating in the Ottoman Empire. Developed in the palace, major Ottoman cities, and Sufi lodges, it traditional ...

. It is similar to the Arabic '' nawba'' and ''

waslah A ''wasla'' ( ar, وَصْلَة / ALA-LC: ''waṣlah''; plural وَصَلَات / ''waṣalāt'') is a set of pieces in Arabic music. It comprises eight or more movements such as ''muwashshah'', ''taqsim'', ''layali'', ''mawwal'', ''qasida'', ''da ...

''. A classical ''fasıl'' generally includes movements such as '' taksim'', ''

peşrev ''Peşrev'' (pronounced in Turkish), ''Pişrev'' (), ''peshrev,'' or ''pishrev;'' called ''bashraf'' بشرف in Arabic; is an instrumental form in Turkish classical music. It is the name of the first piece of music played during a group perform ...

'', '' kâr'', '' beste'', '' ağır semâ'î'', '' yürük semâ'î'', ''

gazel ''Gazel'' is a form of Turkish music that has almost died out. While in other parts of West Asia, ''gazel'' is synonymous with ''ghazal'', in Turkey it denotes an improvised form of solo singing that is sometimes accompanied by the ''ney The '' ...

'', ''

şarkı A ''şarkı'' is an art song in Ottoman classical music which forms one of the movements of a '' fasıl'' (suite). It is performed with an '' usul'' (metric structure). This kind of song is rarely performed today. In modern Turkish, ''şarkı'' ...

'' and ''

saz semâ'î The ''saz semai'' (also spelled in Turkish as ''saz sema'i'', ''saz sema-i'', ''saz sema i'', ''saz semaī'', ''saz semâ'î'', ''sazsemai'', ''saz semaisi'', or ''sazsemaisi'' and in the Arab world as ''samâi'') is an instrumental form in Otto ...

'', played continuously without interludes and interconnected through aranağme arrangement

A modern ''fasıl'' typically includes movements such as '' taksim'', ''

'', ''

(ağır aksak)'', '' yürük semâ'î'', '' Türk aksağı'', '' taksim'', ''

(a few with increasing tempo)'' and ''

''. Traditional Fasıl (both classical and modern) is a musical act distinct from the performance of "oriental" or "arabesque" pop and folk songs found at meyhanes and

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s, which have come to be sometimes referred by the same name.

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