Music and Time Annotation << Back Trends of chamber and instrumental music development in Kazakhstan G.T. Akparova The purpose of creating a complete picture of the formation and development of chamber and instrumental music, which was in the field of creative interests, since its inception and throughout the XXth century and trends are highlighted in the development of chamber and instrumental genre at the present stage. The article raises the problem of the development of chamber instrumental genres by Kazakh composers. The novelty of the present topic of the work is that for the first time in the domestic musicology chamber and instrumental music will be considered as an integral phenomenon. As a systemic phenomenon, chamber and instrumental music was a reflection of the historical and stylistic and genre processes in the musical culture of Kazakhstan. Consequently, this historically artistic and stylistic phenomenon is presented as an integral phenomenon, which manifests itself in the origins, traditions, and modern forms of its functioning. The disclosure of the main items of work theoretical methods used musicological analysis. From a methodological point of view, very important are the works devoted to the problem of "the composer and folklore". The author marked features of folk music (texture, harmonic, timbre and coloristic), which are translated into instrumental chamber music of Kazakh composers. Keywords: composer, chamber and instrumental music, national, processing of songs and kyui, miniature, a string quartet, the sonata. Contacts: E-mail: gakparova@mail.ru Pp. 08-13.