Komitas biography templates

  • This mixtape presents the life and works of Komitas through some of the earliest recordings of Armenian music, including his own performances.
  • Komitas appeared as a performer and propagandist of Armenian music.
  • Composer, musicologist, singer, choirmaster, pedagogue, poet, and the founder of the Armenian National School of Music, was born on 26 September in.

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    COMPOSER

    Komitas is the founder of Armenian national art music. Based on the experience of the Western European classical harmony and the achievements of the Armenian composers and exploring the peculiarities of Armenian traditional music, he established his own style in composition, which is unique within the scope of the music history in general. The harmony and polyphony, as well as the principles of texture in Komitas’s music do not undergo any classification of the commonly accepted musicological definitions.

    Komitas’s compositional heritage contains arrangements of Armenian folk and sacred songs and original works, which are not derived from folk source. The works based on folk and sacred music are also considered as compositional works taking into account Komitas’s unique approach and treatment.
    Komitas composed mainly in the following genres:

    a) Songs with piano accompaniment. Komitas compiled his own ethnographic findings of the masterpieces of the Armenian folk songs for voice and piano. The thematic is miscellaneous: lyrical songs, love songs, joke songs, dance songs etc. Some songs require professional vocal skills for performance, such as ‹‹Անտունի›› (Song of the Exiled Man), ‹‹Կռունկ›› (Crane), ‹‹Ծիրանի ծառ›› (Apricot Tree), etc. The very fact is astoni

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    Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University. (see )

    Note for the listener: Although this podcast refers to certain primary sources, it is not primarily a work of primary source research. It is a synthesis of publicly available information and draws extensively from the following works below, which are also mentioned during the course of the episode. For the purposes of academic citation, we encourage you to consult these works.

    SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Komitas: Essays and Articles : the Musicological Treatises of Komitas Vardapet. Pasadena, Calif: Drazark Press,

    Kuyumjian, Rita Soulahian. Archeology of Madness: Komitas, Portrait of an Armenian Icon. Princeton, N.J.: Gomidas Institute,

    Gasparean, Gurgen. Komitas Vardapet: . Yerevan: Sargis Xačenc&#;,

    Azatean, Toros. Komitas Vardapet&#;: Ir keank&#;n ow gorçownēowt&#;iwnë. Istanbul: Kiwt&#;emperk,

    Adıvar, Halide Edib. Memoirs of Halidé Edib. New York: Century Co, (click for PDF)

    Komitas Virtual Museum ()

    TRACK LIST

    This episode contains excerpts of recordings by Komitas, his contemporaries, and his interpreters. All of these recordings are available for download or streaming through Komitas Virtual Museumor on Youtube. Here is a complete
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