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arabesque

Ar-rah-BESK

[English]

An ornament or an embellished composition. 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.



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Last Updated: 2016-04-29 19:22:57