Essays on Armenian Music

ISBN-13: 9780900707490 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 238 str.

Nersessian, Vrej

Opis

The Armenian hymnary contains some 1200 songs which have links, either implied or actual, with the Byzantine tradition, Hellenic theatre, and the pagan cults and rituals of the pre-Christian era. At different periods Armenian musicians devised and applied varied systems of notation such as khaz which defines pitch, nuance, rhythms and cadence.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).