ANALYSIS OF MUSIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH AT THE SAMARKAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC AND CHOREOGRAPHY

Abstract

This article examines the formation and development of the national music education system in Uzbekistan during the 1920s–1930s from a historical and cultural perspective. It analyzes the activities of the early music schools established in 1920, which were based mainly on European musical traditions and notation systems, while paying little attention to indigenous Uzbek music and the involvement of local teachers. Special attention is given to the establishment of the Samarkand Institute of Music and Choreography in 1928 under the leadership of N.N. Mironov, which became the first scientific center for the study of national music. The article highlights the contributions of prominent musicians and scholars such as Mukhtar Ashrafiy, Toshmurod Sodiqov, and Sharif Ramazonov, who collected and transcribed folk songs from various regions of Uzbekistan. Their efforts played a crucial role in preserving traditional melodies and integrating them into academic study. The findings show that during the 1920s–1930s, the system of national music education in Uzbekistan evolved through the synthesis of European theoretical approaches and local musical traditions, laying the foundation for the emergence of the Uzbek school of composition.