FROM THE HISTORY OF UZBEK WOMEN'S MUSICAL ART

Abstract

Among the varied in content and form of rituals, customs and artistic traditions that have arisen over the centuries of the history of the uzbek people, an important place in the cultural prosperity of our independent homeland occupy various samples of music that have come down from ancient times. For in these priceless pearls found their reflection of the peculiar features of the aesthetic worldview and the rich spiritual world of our people. In the creation and further enrichment of this treasury considerable merit undoubtedly belongs to talented women. Since ancient times, the courts of various rulers have created favorable conditions and opportunities for women to practice various types of arts at a professional level, and one of the leading places in this has been music (music, singing, dance, etc.). Its representatives were called sozanda in Bukhara, khalfa in
Khorezm and yallachi in the Fergana Valley. Nowadays, each of these art forms, with its peculiar intonation sphere and rich creative and performing traditions, has a special value in the arsenal of the гzbek national musical culture.