Archaeology excavations have showed that musical culture of the Guba-Khachmaz region roots in a very far antiquity. So, in the village of Syrtchichi of the Guba district in the cultural levels of the bronze age (3rd-2nd millenium BC) they found a tin whistle "burbug" - ancient musical instrument shaped as a bird, considered to be a sacramental creature. This whistle is a faience figure looking like a nightingale. Its length is 6 sm. and width is 3 sm. The bird figure is without half of its tail. There are two play-openings hollowed in its wings.

Winding musical instruments can be met in all places of the Guba-Khachmaz region. Basically they are used by herdsmen. In the Khachmaz district they still prefer to play an ancient pipe type named "ksul". This traditional musical instrument is being made from reed. It is a cylindrical pipe of about 42 sm. length and 1,5-2 sm. diameter, with 6 openings.

Most popular music in the Guba-Khachmaz region is one performed by the zurnachi and balabanchi ensembles. Repertoire of these ensembles is very wide. Their instruments - zurna and balaban - are pipes of the oboe type, with length of about 30 sm., made from a nut-tree or an apricot-tree and formed to either conic (zurna) or cylindrical (balaban) shape, with 7-8 holes at its up side and one at the down side.

Zurna performing tradition is popular throughout Azerbaijan, especially at Guba

Beside zurna and balaban players, this ensemble includes one or two musicians playing drums. Local population of the Guba-Khachmaz region use to arrange all their traditional events (especially weddings and funerals) with participation of these ensembles, performing at all holidays and celebrations in the area. Zurna-balaban ensembles are especially popular as traditional dancing music performers. Our days they still are invited to all mass festivities acting the events' necessary participants.

Aghasi Aghasizadeh from Davachi is considered to be the most famous zurnachi of the Guba-Khachmaz region. Now his sons continue his musical art. A.Abyshev - a balaban player from Khachmaz must be mentioned as well. During a long time their zurna-balaban performing serves a high standard for other musicians.

The ashig music is another musical folklore tradition of the Guba-Khachmaz region. Ashigs - saz playing singers - always were popular here and used to perform showing broad repertoire. They used to sing dastans (traditional one-man-show operas), fairy-tales, romantic-lyrical songs, eulogy-songs, satiric songs etc. Music for their singing is not complicated, but very clear with its rhythms. Ashiq music tradition lives in generations, passing from senior musicians to juniors as invaluable cultural heritage.

Ashigs of the Guba-Khachmaz region were not so popular as their colleagues from Qarabagh, Gadabay and other regions of Azerbaijan, still they include many famous names: ashig Takhijanli from Qusar (lived in XVIII-XIX c.); ashig Khaltanyh from Guba (performed in XIX c.); ashig Alasgar from Guba; ashig Badal from Qonaqkand etc.

Besides its musicians, the Guba-Khachmaz region is famous with its experts in production of musical instruments: A.Yolchiyev from Guba was known as a saz-master, Sh.Gadabayov from Guba was known as a tar-master, H. Dadashev was known as an outstanding kamancha-master etc.

Dancing itself as well as dancing music are very popular in the Guba-Khachmaz region. But this popularity doesn't concern group dances. Traditional solo dances are dominant here: "Vaghzalyh", "Tarakama" etc.