Work in pairs, Read and check your answers Put the verbs in the passive voice. Uzbek professional music (1) (know) in the 15th century by its famous musiclans Usto Kul-Muhammad, Shaikhi-Na'i and the poet Abdurakhman Jami, The great poet Alisher Navoi was not only a musician but also a composer of some pieces of music. The genre makom stands at the top of Uzbek professional music of oral folk tradition, National instruments "doira" and "tanbur" (2) (play) in this genre. Makoms are instrumental and vocal musical pieces performed together as a cycle. The Shashmakom consists of six makoms and it is the highest step of the musical culture of Uzbek people. The tanbur-player Pakhlavon Niyoz- Mirzaboshi from Khorezm invented writing for Uzbek national musical instruments. Later it (3) … (bring) into practice. Early in the 20th century, the first national opera "Layli and Majnun" by U.Gajibekov (4) (stage) in Tashkent. Great Uzbek musicians Tukhtasin Ja- lilov, Muhitdin Kori-Yokubov and Yunus Rajabi developed the new forms of Uzbek national music and applied them to the traditional makoms. They (5) … (use) in music for national musical instruments and philharmonic orchestras. The development of modern Uzbek na- tional music (6) … (make) by the famous composer and conductor Mukhtor Ashrafi. Many of his compositions (7) … (base) on Uzbek and Tajik folk songs. Ulugbek Musaev is the author of the ballet "Tumaris", which (8) … (base) on the ancient legend about the fight of the Massagetian queen against the Persian army. Among the most famous philhar- monic composers is Uzbek composer Rustam Abdullaev. Today the traditions of Uzbek national music, folk melodies and songs (9) (teach) at musical colleges and at Tashkent State Conservatoire.