2b 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 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 The development of modern Uzbek na-
culture of Uzbek people.
tional music (6) ... (make) by the famous
The tanbur-player Pakhlavon Niyoz- composer and conductor Mukhtor Ashrafi.
Mirzaboshi from Khorezm invented writing Many of his compositions (7) ... (base) on
for Uzbek national musical instruments. Uzbek and Tajik folk songs.
Later it (3) ... (bring) into practice. Early in Ulugbek Musaev is the author of the
the 20th century, the first national opera ballet "Tumaris", which (8) ... (base) on
"Layli and Majnun" by U. Gajibekov (4) ... the ancient legend about the fight of the
(stage) in Tashkent.
Massagetian queen against the Persian
Great Uzbek musicians Tukhtasin Ja- army. Among the most famous philhar-
lilov, Muhitdin Kori-Yokubov and Yunus monic composers is Uzbek composer
Rajabi developed the new forms of Uzbek Rustam Abdullaev.
national music and applied them to the Today the traditions of Uzbek national
traditional makoms. They (5) ... (use) in music, folk melodies and songs (9) ...
music for national musical instruments and (teach) at musical colleges and at Tashkent
State Conservatoire.
philharmonic orchestras.​