Beste was one of the main forms of fasil (along with semâ'î), and its lyrics came from the Ottoman Turkish language poetry forms gazel and murabba.[1][2]
^Feldman, Walter (1996). Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire. Intercultural Music Studies. Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung. p. 182.
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