Music and Time Annotation << Back Ballet «Uria – Freedom» by Rauf Gadzhiev in the Context of the Problem of Tradition and Modernity K.B. Huseynova This article is dedicated to the review of the ballet work of Rauf Hajiyev as an outstanding representative of the Azerbaijani school of composition. The article presents an analysis of the composer’s ballet "Uriya". The article emphasizes the importance of Rauf Hajiyev in Azerbaijani music, as well as the composer’s ballet work. At the same time, his activities in the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria are discussed. In his ballets, the problems of everyday life of the period were highlighted, innovations, music and theory were studied. After the research, it is concluded that the composer’s ballet "Uriya" clearly reflects the deep synthesis of the national music of the oral tradition in the Azerbaijani musical culture of the second half of the twentieth century with the progressive means of modern times. European music. The originality of the musical language of the work is characterized by the unity of national and Western musical thinking. Keywords: Ballet, genre, style, harmony, cluster, intonation, melody, rhythm. Pp. 03-07.