Tezeta; Amharic: ትዝታ; English: memory, "nostalgia" or "longing")[1] is one of the Pentatonic scales or Qañat of the Amhara ethnic group.
[3] Tizita folk songs developed in the countryside by the Amhara peasantry and the village musicians called the Azmaris.
[1] Tizita is known for strongly moving listener's feelings not only among the Amhara, but a large number of Ethiopians, in general.
In Slovakia, the closest word is clivota or cnenie, Sehnsucht in German, and "կարոտ"[8] (phonetically karōt) in Armenian.
[8] Modern Ethiopian artists who have performed tizita songs include Aster Aweke, Hailu Mergia, Bezawork Asfaw, Teddy Afro, Mulatu Astatke, Meklit Hadero, Seyfu Yohannes and Mahmoud Ahmed.