TNK students became winners of the scientific competition of the St. Petersburg Conservatory

Students of the Turkmen National Conservatory named after Mai Kulieva became winners of the XII International Conference-Competition held by the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov.
The topic of the competition of scientific works of students, students and graduate students is “Ethnomusicology: history, theory, practice”, and within this topic there were several more research areas in which they managed to show off their knowledge and impress the jury with the novelty of the scientific approach and the representatives of Turkmenistan, who took the first two and one third place in various categories.
Among the winners is Jemal Agadzhanova, a 4th year student majoring in String Instruments. She was awarded the first place in the nomination "Folk Instrument - Melody - Musician: Problems of Systemic Study". Jemal devoted her competition work to the study of musical instruments associated with the finds at the archaeological sites of Turkmenistan. She presented interesting information, systematized after a detailed study of a large amount of scientific literature and artifacts with images of musical instruments. These are percussion - tympanums, tambourines and a drum; wind - Pan's flute, pipes, aulos and bugles; stringed - cithara, lyre and two-stringed lutes.
Another first place was taken by a third-year student in the specialty "Opera" Dunyagozel Begaliyeva in the nomination "Musical folklore of the peoples of the world." She chose girls' songs in Turkmen musical folklore as her theme as one of the unique areas of folk art. These are the tunes of lyaleler, khuvdilator - lullabies, wedding "Noi-noy", "Yar-yar", monjukatdy and others. The contestant not only revealed the traditions of performing these genres in her scientific report, but also demonstrated it with her voice.
In the nomination "Musical epic in its ethno-cultural diversity", a 2nd year student in the specialty "Musicology" Makhri Kurbankuliyeva took third place. She spoke with the topic “Peculiarities of the destan performance of the Mary region of Turkmenistan” on the example of the work of the famous bakhshi Gurt Yakubov, one of the brightest and most original destan narrators. He became the creator of a special tradition of their performance, which was continued by his followers. Numerous old destans and legends received a new life in its sound.
The jury of the conference-competition also noted the work of the scientific supervisors of the participants with letters of thanks, these are senior teachers of the Department of History of Music Agadzhan Achilov, Bakhargul Yakubova and Rovshen Mukhammedov.

source: orient news