Musicology Annotation << Back Kazakh Music in Modern Foreign Composers’ Works Valeria Nedlina One of the features of contemporary period in the history of Kazakh music can be shown as attention of foreign composers to traditional music of Kazakhstan. The article describes the methods of creative process with Kazakh material in pieces of P. Child (USA), Y. Avital (Israel — Italy), W. Linden (Germany), K. Jenkins (UK), A. LeBaron (USA). Special attention is paid to synthesis of ancient genres like joqtau (funeral song) with modern multimedia composing technologies. Keywords: Peter Child, Werner Linden, Yuval Avital, Carl Jenkins, Anne LeBaron, contemporary Kazakh music, Kazakh folk music, multimedia music, adaption. Contacts: E-mail: leranedlin@gmail.com Pp. 17-25.