Abstract. As a result of the mutual harmony of literary and musical creativity, a holistic work of art is created in the choral art. This art is related to the art of folk singing and played an important role in the formation and development of the national musical culture of other peoples. In the fraternal republics, which did not have professional choral performance in the past, it was formed in its own way. These peoples began to create new directions of choral art based on national traditions. According to some information, professional choirs existed in the Sogdian states. Later, after the Arab conquest, this art was not developed. Since ancient times, the destruction of tribal society and the transition to a class society, the emergence of the states of Bactria, Sugdiana and Khorezm, the military campaigns of the Achaemenids, their administrative unification, the creation of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom Alexander the Great, VII BC. includes the historical period from the 1st century to the 4th century AD.