ISSUES OF RESEARCH OF THE MAIN FEATURES OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC IN THE PIANO WORK OF AZERBAIJANI COMPOSERS

The article is devoted to the study of the main features of the use of traditional music by Azerbaijani composers in the piano. The deep roots of the musical language of Azerbaijani composers are connected with traditional music. Branches of traditional music – folk music, ashug and mugham – have become sources of the composer’s creativity. In the development stages of Azerbaijani music, the connection of the composer’s creativity with traditional music is obvious. Therefore, the problem of “Traditional music and composer’s creativity" is important in musicology. The national features of the Azerbaijani musical stylistic were formed as a result of the interaction of the composer’s creativity with the fields of traditional music. The tendencies of modern music are also organically connected with national roots. In the composer’s work, the connection with national roots is revealed individually. Therefore, the approach of composers to traditional music, the study of ways of creative use of traditional music is put forward as one of the necessary issues. However, the individual approach to traditional music in the composer’s work created conditions for the formation of common national features. Such features are found in the means of musical expression – melody, rhythm, harmonic and polyphonic structure, etc. manifests itself. Piano works of Azerbaijani composers were studied in the context of national features, in particular, the use of ashug works in composers’ works was studied. The author has studied the fundamental importance of traditional music in the formation and development of the Azerbaijani school of composition, explained the ways of applying the basic structural and compositional principles of Azerbaijani traditional music genres, musical features in the composer’s work. At the same time, the piano works of Azerbaijani composers were considered and the genre features and musical language of the works related to the ashug music were analyzed. The piano works reflect the study of ways to use the work of ashugs, the characterization of aspects arising from the synthesis of the principles of traditional music and composition.