About poetry and melody

From time immemorial, melody and poetry have always been inter-connected, complementing and decorating each other. Folk songs, dastans, ancient hymns, reading traditions, dhikrs of dervishes are vivid examples of this. Although by the Middle Ages, music and poetry separately rose to the level of the classics and began to possess the properties of immanent expression, the mutual "need" of these two types of art has survived to this day. Deeply aware of this, musicians of different eras have always aspired to poetry, and poets have always been interested in music.In this respect, especially during the reign of Amir Temur and the Temurids, the activities of many poets and musicians were very effective. Indeed, thanks to the talent of the creators, as well as the commonality of priority ideas and in many respects the similarity of the classical metric of poetry with musical art, highly artistic samples of vocal music were creat-ed, reflecting the amazing harmony of word and melody.These creative traditions, clearly expressed in the system of Twelve Maqoms, continue to this day in the Bukhara Shashmakom, Khorezm ma-qoms, Fergana-Tashkent maqoms and classical vocal genres such as suvo-ra, ashula, katta ashula. Currently, song genres are of particular importance in the formation of the spiritual world of generations, singing in a harmo-nious combination of melodies and words such noble qualities as loyalty to the Motherland and the people, tolerance, sincerity, humanism. In this regard, modern poets, composers and performers have achieved certain results. In the long term, a responsible but noble creative task is to bring the achieved results to a new level, which is a requirement of the time.