Talk:Arabesque (Turkish music)

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Article
Classical Arabesque

There should be another article about Arabesque music that is about the use of the term in "classical" music. Read this excerpt from http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary:

Arabesque - An ornament or an embellished work. The term is taken from the Arabic art and architecture which was very ornate. This term is used for various kinds of melodic, contrapuntal, or harmonic ornamentation. Several composers including Claude Debussy and Robert Schumann have used this term as a title for compositions.

-Clara

There is no such terms as 'classical arabesque', it is just a 'style' used a few times in the genre of classical music. I suggest then this should be in a Arabesque music (style) article, to show it has affcted that genre - it is not a genre within itself and not really applicable here - though if an article is made it can be linked to this page. As an example see Turkish music (style), for Turkish influences in Western classical music. 82.145.231.57 04:53, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I can't see why the arabesque spelling is even used at all. Arabesk, as it is discussed on this page and is considered in Turkey, is written arabesk and is not synonymous with French usage of arabesque. All the academic literature on the genre writes the genre as arabesk. eliotbates (talk) 10:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The above seems essentially correct. Are there English-language sources that actually use "Arabesque" when talking specifically about the music genre known as "Arabesk" in Turkey? If there are not, the article title should be Arabesk. At the moment this article is unsourced, and has in "references" an anonymous blog by some guy named "Ali". Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 23:50, 1 March 2017 (UTC)