Azerbaijan cinema music played a great role in the development of the composer styles. Thanks to connection with movie specificity have developed new principles, methods and means of expression. Azerbaijan composers have become active in movie music since 1930s, although composers have movies made in Baku had beer demonstrated with various music accompaniments. Musical background was created both by national musical ensembles and singers, and ensembles and piano players performing in European style.
    The first example is music written by Niyazi for the movie "Almas"(director A.Guliyev) . After that movies ("Peasants", director - S. Mardanov, 1939) were accompanied mainly national musical turns. The film "Azerbaijan arts" featured prominent personalities of the national musical art - U. Hajybayov, H.Sarabski, Sh. Mammadova, Bulbul, J. Garyaghdy, G. Pirimopov, and others. For the first time in the brined, the film presented U. Hajybayov's opera "Leyli and Majnun" and opera "Shahsanam" written by R. Gliyer and mooted specifically to Baku. Although Niyazi's music written for the movie "Kandlilar" ("Peasants") plays mainly the role of accompanied, same pieces emphasizes emotional aspects of the movie's events.
    A qualitatively new period in the Azerbaijan movie music is linked with two great representatives of the national composer school - Gara Garayev and Tofig Guliyev. Both had their first experiences in cinema music in 1940s. The music of G. Garayev written for different film genre documentary or others, is characrterized by high artistic qualities, dramatic range, expressive force and true symphonic essence . G. Garayev viewed movie music as a key means of expressing the dramatic core rather than a passive very interesting are expressed in a lyrical manner musical images created by E. Sabitoghlu who is mainly known as a master of accompaniment.
    The song is the idea bearer in the movie music of T. Guliyev among his most popular songs have been those written for the films "Bakhtiyar", "Under the burning sun", "The telephone -operator girl", "Stepmother", "Nasimi","The mother in law" and others. Synthesis of pop genre and national song is the main feature of the movie music of R. Hajybayov., :"Romeo manim gonshumdur", "Ahmad haradadyr?" are good examples. Movie music of F. Amirov is characterized by bright national traits, close links with national musical traditions and emotional richness. All renowned representatives of the national composer school have been engaged in writing Azerbaijani movie music. Arif Malikov widely used in his music for movies dramatic, poetic and romantic aspect of symphonic genre to stress the main image.
    Very interesting are expressed in a lyrical manner musical images created by E. Sabitoghlu who is mainly known as a master of songs. His songs for movies not only are valuable examples musical performance out also enhance general dramatic direction and important aspects of a film. His music expresses films bath apparent and implied messages and motions. Music of Agshin Alizadeh is characterized by emotional and psychological manners and pastoral tints.
    Polad Bulbuloghlu masterfully uses different genres in his music, folklore as well as pop. Film music is perhaps the only flawless aspect of Azerbaijan cinema. It was thanks to relation to cinema specificity that such features as new dramatic principles, vivid means of expression and fullness of intonation.

Farah Aliyeva - musicologist