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Purpose: to reveal the multifaceted activities of the outstanding Uzbek scientist, musicologist, doctor of art history Tukhtasin Gafurbekov and determine the role in the development of musicology in Uzbekistan.Methods: the research uses a musical-historical and biographical method of analysis.Results: based on the analysis of musical critical opuses, scientific works of the scientist, the vector and main directions of Tukhtasin Gafurbekov's activity are determined as well as the problems of research in Uzbek musicology at the end of the twentieth century.Scientific novelty: scientific novelty consists in attracting new previously unexplored materials and historical facts on the object of research Practical importance: the results of the research can be used in a course of lectures on musical, historical and theoretical disciplines to help fill in the pages of the history of national musicology and the development of musical culture in Uzbekistan.
Ravshanoy Tursunova (Tue,) studied this question.