Uzbek Music
Traditional Uzbek music has deep and ancient roots. Folklore music has a lot of genres: nursery rhymes, rite, labor, common, dialogues, long-drawl-out songs.
Makoma is classic Uzbek music and special musical genre, with peculiar drawl and tender performance. Lyric singers sing makonas based on verses of Oriental poets (Djami, Navoi, Fazuli, Khafiza, Uvaysi, Nadira, Mukimi, Ogakhi and etc).
Wealth and variety of Uzbek musical traditions can be explained by a great number of national musical instruments: gidjak, kobuz, dombra, dutar, tanbur, ud, rubab, chang, surnaq, nay, karnay, doyra, nagora, chindaul and others.
