Asian Journal of Multidimensional Research (AJMR)
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 2

Classification of Uzbek national stringed musical instruments

PhD, Professor of Music Education Department Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Bukhara State University, Republic of Uzbekistan

Online published on 23 March, 2021.

Abstract

The following article deals with the role of Uzbek national stringed musical instruments in the cultural life of people, their stages of development over the centuries, and the impact on the spiritual world of people through the sound of “mizrab”. In addition, there was studied old musical instrument’s repairing stagesand new ones invented periods, and their importance in our modern cultural life. The rubab word, which belongs to the dynasty of strings, is one of the instruments that adorn the musical life of the Uzbek people. Information about Rubab can be found mainly in pamphlets written in the X-XVII centuries. The great medieval scholar al-Farabi wrote in his treatise on music, “Musical instruments that make sounds close to the human voice are the rubab, the flute, and the trumpet; they mimic the sound very well. The instruments will be accompanied by singing.

Keywords

Centuries echo, Stringed musical instruments, Kashgarrubab, Prima rubab, Metsosopranarubab, Alt rubab, Afghan rubab, Ud, Tanbur