Otar Takhtakishvili's music is so national, that one can't study its musical-expressive means without envisaging the Georgian folk music secularities and regularities. It is the creative transformation of these regularities and their combination with the pecularities of the European professional music, that became one of the characteristic features of Takhtakishvili's signature.

On Otar Takhtakishvili's works one can find both the examples of citation and the creative interpretation of the characteristic principles of Georgian folk music. The ethnographical variety is the main feature of his music. Besides the Georgian folk songs in the sphere of Takhtakishvili's interests there is folk instrumental music as well. He often uses the imitation of folk instruments too.

The national character of O. Takhtakishvili's music is often displayed in the structure of his melody and in the principles of accord-heepling and rhythmical-intonational phrases.

Takhtakishvili's style is fresh and original. It is due to his ability to sinthesize the achievements of folk and professional music and to make it modern.