Work in pairs, Read and check your answers Put the verbs in the passive voice.
Uzbek professional music (1)
(know)
in the 15th century by its famous musiclans
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 developed 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.

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