The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Baiati

a genre of Azerbaijani folk songs, usually lyrical.

Baiati are based on a strictly defined poetic form—seven-beat lines, grouped in four-line stanzas. Baiati are performed by gusans and ashugs (folk poets and singers) to the accompaniment of the tar, kemancha, and saz.

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