Essays on Armenian Music

Focusing on Armenian music, this volume contains essays on Komitas Vardapet, the "khaz" notation system, "khaz" notation in Armenian manuscripts, the modes of Armenian music, Armenian folk music and psalmody, and lines of research in the field.

List of contents

Komitas vardapet and his contribution to ethnomusicology, Les anciens manuscrits musicaux armeniens et les questions relatives a leur dechiffrement, Recherches sur la genese de l’octoechos armenien, Armenische Chasen, Die Armenische professionelle Liederkunst des Mittelalters, Elemente der Mehrstimmigkeit in der Armenischen Volksmusik, Monodische Denkmaler Alt-Armeniens Die Tradition der Armenischen Psalmodie

About the author

Vrej Nersessian is Head of the Christian Middle East section at the British Library and author of several titles including Treasures from the Ark: 1700 Years of Armenian Christian Art (British Library, 2001).

Summary

First Published in 1998. This book has grown out of the author's research about Iraq and Palestine 1932-41, written in Tel Aviv University.

Product details

• Authors: Vrej Nersessian
• Assisted by: Vrej Nersessian (Editor)
• Publisher: Kahn & Averill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780900707490
• ISBN: 978-0-900707-49-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Weight: 586 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory; Armenien, UdSSR, Sowjetunion, Geistliche, religiöse Musik, Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie, Folk-Stil, Traditionelle Musik und Volksmusik