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touches us 
GMotionalty. 
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J o h n n y D epp
W o rk in p a irs. 
C o m p le te a T -c h a rt.
(pop) music make you feel?
W o rk in g ro u p s . A sk and answ er. 
e .g . A: What music d o /d o n ’t you like? How does
B: I like pop music because it makes me happy. / I don’t like rock music 
because it makes me want to shut my ears. And what about you?
want to shut my ears, want to 
dance, rem em ber good things, 
want to sing, think about nature
R e m e m b e r:
This music makes m e /y o u /h im /h e r/u s /th e m happy.
This music makes m e /y o u /h im /h e r/u s /th e m want to dance.
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U N IT 6 W O R LD OF M U SIC

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1 W o rk in p a irs. M atch th e w o rd s and e xp la n a tio n s. Repeat th e new w o rd s.
1) vocal (adj) 
a) someone who stands in front of musicians and controls
their performance
b) involving voice, especially in singing
c) a series of events repeated again and again, always in 
the same order
d) to organize a performance of music or a play
2 a W o rk in p a irs . A n sw e r th e q u e stio n s.
1) Since when is Uzbek professional music known?
2) Was Alisher Navoi a poet or a musician?
3) What is “ makom”/ “shashmakom”?
2 b W o rk in p a irs. Read and c h e c k y o u r answ ers.
Put th e v e rb s in th e passive v o ic e .
LESSON 2 Uzbek national music
2) cycle (n)
3) to stage (v)
4) a conductor (n)
4) Who was Mukhtor Ashrafi?
5) Are the traditions of Uzbek 
national music supported?
Uzbek professional music (1) ... (know) 
in the 15th century by its famous musicians 
Usto Kul-Muhammad, Shaikhi-Na’i and the 
poet Abdurakhman Jami. The great poet 
Alisher Navoi was not only a musician but 
also a composer of some pieces of music.
The genre makom stands at the top 
of Uzbek professional music of oral folk 
tradition. National instruments “doira” and 
“tanbur” (2) ... (play) in this genre. Makoms 
are instrumental and vocal musical pieces 
performed together as a cycle.
The Shashmakom consists of six makoms 
and it is the highest step of the musical 
culture of Uzbek people.
The tanbur-player Pakhlavon 
Niyoz- 
Mirzaboshi from Khorezm invented writing 
for Uzbek national musical instruments. 
Later it (3) ... (bring) into practice. Early in 
the 20th century, the first national opera 
“ Layli and Majnun” by U.Gajibekov (4) ... 
(stage) in Tashkent.
Great Uzbek musicians Tukhtasin Ja- 
lilov, Muhitdin Kori-Yokubov and Yunus 
Rajabi deve I oped the new forms of Uzbek 
national music and applied them to the 
traditional makoms. They (5) ... (use) in 
music for national musical instruments and 
philharmonic orchestras.
The development of modern Uzbek na­
tional music (6) ... (make) by the famous 
composer and conductor Mukhtor Ashrafi. 
Many of his compositions (7) ... (base) on 
Uzbek and Tajik folk songs.
Ulugbek Musaev is the author of the 
ballet “Tumaris” , which (8) ... (base) on 
the ancient legend about the fight of the 
Massagetian queen against the Persian 
army. Among the most famous philhar­
monic composers is Uzbek composer 
Rustam Abdullaev.
Today the traditions of Uzbek national 
music, folk melodies and songs (9) ... 
(teach) at musical colleges and at Tashkent 
State Conservatoire.
3 a W o rk in p a irs o r in g ro u p s o f fo u r. A n sw e r th e q u e stio n s.
1) What do you think about 
Uzbek national music?
2) Where can you listen to 
Uzbek national music?
3) What kind of music is popular 
in the place where you live?
4) Have you been to any concert lately?
What kind of music was there?
5) Who are the most famous Uzbek 
singers/bands?
3 b M ake a re p o rt.