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John Morgan O’Connell

John Morgan O’Connell

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume X : Genres: Middle East and North Africa

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...The gazel is a genre of vocal improvisation in Turkish music. Replicating a poetic form that is found throughout the Middle East (Persian, ghazal; Turkish, gazel), the vocal gazel is composed of couplets (beyts ) which follow...