The purpose of this article is to the study of music as a representative of the picture of the world nomadic culture. With a systemic organization, rich expressive means, music reflects the diversity of the world in its complex, subtle and profound manifestations being the artistic value, key world modeling element. Music can satisfy the aesthetic needs of the ethnic group, determine the picture of the world. This research used a set of methods that indicate the aim of the study: systems analysis, dialectic method, conceptual, structural semiotic, and structural-functional analysis, which enable studying music culture as a holistic conceptual and symbolic system. The definition of music is given as a result: it is a dynamic phenomenon that is in constant evolution, the creative process, the product of activity, woven from spiritual identity of the nation; the product of national creative intellectual power; the method of expressing the world of sounds; a way of understanding culture; a potential model of cultural action. The complexity of the ethnic and historical processes on the way of formation and development of the nation generated the originality of its culture. Music, representing the picture of the world, is directly present in it, determines its characteristics.

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