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Music of the Universe in Shamanic Traditions, Rituals and Practices ABSTRACT: The article is dedicated to the issues of shamanic music as music of the universe. One of the characteristics of shamanic music is its ability to combine spatial worlds into harmonic unity. The author analyses the process of creation of unique Power songs, features of sound vibration and sound/noise complex, music instrumentarium, the role of music and musical instruments in shamanic initiation procedures, esoteric practices and shamanic burials. The author argues that music of the universe with its polyfunctional, sacred, formulaic features, compositional openness, absence of strict high-pitch, timbre, and rhythmical fixedness, sound-imitation and sound-creation has found its development as ethno-codifying characteristic of traditional Turkic musical art. It combines ethnical and local styles, creates unity of cultural tradition, brings together music of the universe with music of the soul and music as a type of art. KEY WORDS: Music of the Universe, Music as art, shamanic music, shamanism, sound vibrations.