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taqsim

In Arab, Turkish, and Greek music an improvisation in one or more melodic modes, in free-rhythmic style. The performer improvises passages in which the performer realises structurally important degrees of a chosen melodic mode, in an order peculiar to that mode. See also maqam.
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