2b 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 musiciansUsto Kul-Muhammad, Shaikhi-Na'i and thepoet Abdurakhman Jami. The great poetAlisher Navoi was not only a musician butalso a composer of some pieces of music. The genre makom stands at the topof Uzbek professional music of oral folktradition. National instruments "doira" and"tanbur" (2) . . . (play) in this genre. Makomsare instrumental and vocal musical piecesperformed together as a cycle. The Shashmakom consists of six makomsand it is the highest step of the musical The development of modern Uzbek na-culture of Uzbek people. tional music (6) . . . (make) by the famousThe tanbur-player Pakhlavon Niyoz- composer and conductor Mukhtor Ashrafi. Mirzaboshi from Khorezm invented writing Many of his compositions (7) . . . (base) onfor Uzbek national musical instruments. Uzbek and Tajik folk songs. Later it (3) . . . (bring) into practice. Early in Ulugbek Musaev is the author of thethe 20th century, the first national opera ballet "Tumaris", which (8) . . . (base) on"Layli and Majnun" by U. Gajibekov (4) . . . the ancient legend about the fight of the(stage) in Tashkent. Massagetian queen against the PersianGreat Uzbek musicians Tukhtasin Ja- army. Among the most famous philhar-lilov, Muhitdin Kori-Yokubov and Yunus monic composers is Uzbek composerRajabi developed the new forms of Uzbek Rustam Abdullaev. national music and applied them to the Today the traditions of Uzbek nationaltraditional makoms. They (5) . . . (use) in music, folk melodies and songs (9) . . . music for national musical instruments and (teach) at musical colleges and at TashkentState Conservatoire. philharmonic orchestras.