What is "Classical Turkish music"?

Question

And what are the best recommendations for compilations etc?

Answer 1

If you are talking about real "classic" music, then you mean "musıki". The older one belongs Ottoman, actual one is called "Türk Sanat Müziği".

Answer 2

Old Turkish classical music was mostly using religious figures. For about 100-150 years it is written on love. If you explore you may see there are some songs which are really hard to play.

Answer 3

The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Arabic and Persian classical music, to Balkan music and ancient Byzantine music, and Central Asian folk music to modern European and American popular music.The roots of traditional music in Turkey spans across the centuries to a time when the Seljuk Turks colonized Anatolia and Persia in the 11th century and even before pre-Turkic influences, while much of its modern popular music can trace its roots to the emergence in the early 1930s drive for Westernization .The new residents of metropolitan areas were mostly suffering from hard economical conditions and having difficulties in adapting to the big city. This newly constructed culture generated its own music, derogatively termed by musicologists as arabesque, due to its high pitched wailing and exaggerated symbolisms of suffering. Arabesque was a synthesis of Turkish folk and middle-eastern music. The growing left-wing subculture also found its own arabesque, in a new version of protest music fused in folk traditions. In the era influenced by the military government, arabesque and özgün genres were labeled "degenerate" and discouraged by the government, while Turkish classical music was promoted.Western-style pop music having lost popularity to arabesque in the late 70s and 80s with even its greatest proponents Ajda Pekkan and Sezen Aksu falling in status, became popular again by the beginning of the 1990s, as a result of an opening economy and society. The increasing popularity of pop music gave rise to several international Turkish pop stars such as Tarkan and Sertab Erener, with the support of Aksu.

Answer 4

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