ON MUSICAL TURCOLOGY IN AZERBAIJANI ETNOLOGY

Abstract The relevance of studying the relationship between Azerbaijani folk music and Turkish folk music is due to new stages of the formation of Azerbaijani music and its functioning are being revealed. This article discusses certain aspects of musical turkology in Azerbaijani science. The study of musical turkology is relevant because a comparative analysis of Azerbaijani folk music with Turkish folk music reveals not only the common properties of the two musical cultures but also their unique features. This article considers some components of the research done by Azerbaijani musicologists in the field of musical turkology. Among them are the determinants of the genre system of Azerbaijani folk music and Turkish folk music. The acquisition of independence by Azerbaijan had a great impact on the science of Azerbaijan. Turkology, an important component of human sciences, gained even greater scope and development.