This book is about one of Türkmenistan's most favourite and most often performed epic narratives, Harman Däli. In Türkmen rich epic repertory, Harman Däli is attributed special significance because it is entirely devoted to music depicted in a symbolic language of myth and poetry. The main character in this fabulous-mythical romance is a musician, and music creates a real-unreal world in which the events presented by the narrator occur. Türkmen epic repertory abounds in romantic tales similar to Harman Däli. And yet it is Harman Däli that Türkmen narrators value the most because in this epic tale a passionate love for beautiful woman and a great love of music and poetry interweave.