Music Culture of Central Asian Turkic Peoples and its Development

Abstract

This article examines the musical culture of the Turkic peoples of Central Asia and its development. The world of Turkic musical culture is rich and diverse, and has long been the object of close attention of scientists. In addition to the originality and uniqueness of each modern Turkic culture, researchers inevitably encounter the obviousness of their genetic relationship. At present, the traditional musical cultures of individual Turkic peoples have been studied quite well based on musical and ethnographic materials from the ХIX-XX centuries. But it is necessary to take into account that by the ХХ century, the traditional musical art of the Turkic-speaking peoples already represented musical cultures of different stages that had diverged greatly from each other.