The Letters of Komitas Vardapet

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Publisher : Mosaic Press
ISBN 13 : 1771613599
Total Pages : 601 pages
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Download or read book The Letters of Komitas Vardapet written by Kommitas Vardapet and published by Mosaic Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Komitas Vardapet is the most significant and iconic figure of Armenia. He is revered by all Armenians. A tragic figure and the genius of Armenian music, he survived the Armenian genocide, yet his story remains at the cultural center of the Armenian people and nation. All Armenians, both in Armenia and in the diaspora, recognize their soul and find their spiritual nature in Komitas. It is often said that the Armenian people continue today to live through him and his musical legacy.Much of the creative legacy of Komitas, music, papers, manuscripts, were destroyed or lost. Today, there is growing world-wide interest in Komitas' music with recordings, his concerts and performances.During his lifetime, Komitas was highly regarded by his musical colleagues everywhere, including in Europe. He traveled extensively to the major musical capitals of Europe, Berlin, Paris, Vienna and more. He also maintained a full and lively correspondence with churchmen, musical colleagues and intellectuals in many countries. His letters give us an opportunity to understand this brilliant musician who possessed remarkable features of charm, modesty, an acutely perceptive mind and an original wit.This new volume of The Letters of Komitas was first published in Armenia in 2014 and now, the English language world will have access to this important and unique volume. In Letters of Komitas, the reader has intimate access to the human side of Komitas. Within that towering musical figure, there is a regular man who jokes with his correspondents, laments the state of Armenian music corrupted by foreign influences, and takes pride in his contribution to Armenian identity. The letters in the book explore Komitas' relationship with the Church and demonstrate how the man now considered a musical genius was once the subject of criticism by some of his contemporaries. There are recordings of Komitas' voice available online that feature him singing some of his compositions. But Letters of Komitas gives readers access to the voice of the everyday human being who lived within that musical giant and provides insights into the psyche and spirit of this unforgettable figure of Armenian history.This book contains 184 letters written by Komitas and 37 letters he received . It is the most complete collection to date, carefully edited. Each letter includes detailed background and notations for the reader

Komitas

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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Armenian Folklore Bibliography

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520097940
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Book Synopsis Armenian Folklore Bibliography by : Anne M. Avakian

Download or read book Armenian Folklore Bibliography written by Anne M. Avakian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 00 This bibliography, with annotations, consists of almost 1380 citations derived from libraries in Berkeley, California, notably at the University of California. Most of the articles and books listed are in Armenian, but items in English, French, German, and Russian are also included. This book covers an area of study not heretofore presented in substantial length and will be of interest to folklorists throughout the world. This bibliography, with annotations, consists of almost 1380 citations derived from libraries in Berkeley, California, notably at the University of California. Most of the articles and books listed are in Armenian, but items in English, French, German, and Russian are also included. This book covers an area of study not heretofore presented in substantial length and will be of interest to folklorists throughout the world.

Music and the Armenian Diaspora

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253017769
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Book Synopsis Music and the Armenian Diaspora by : Sylvia Angelique Alajaji

Download or read book Music and the Armenian Diaspora written by Sylvia Angelique Alajaji and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and their descendants have used music to adjust to a life in exile and counter fears of obscurity. In this nuanced and richly detailed study, Sylvia Angelique Alajaji shows how the boundaries of Armenian music and identity have been continually redrawn: from the identification of folk music with an emergent Armenian nationalism under Ottoman rule to the early postgenocide diaspora community of Armenian musicians in New York, a more self-consciously nationalist musical tradition that emerged in Armenian communities in Lebanon, and more recent clashes over music and politics in California. Alajaji offers a critical look at the complex and multilayered forces that shape identity within communities in exile, demonstrating that music is deeply enmeshed in these processes. Multimedia components available online include video and audio recordings to accompany each case study.

Komitas Vardapet i Masin Makar Ekmaleani "Ergetsʻoghutʻiwn S. Pataragi"

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Total Pages : 72 pages
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Essays On Armenian Music

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135879419
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Book Synopsis Essays On Armenian Music by : Vrej Nersessian

Download or read book Essays On Armenian Music written by Vrej Nersessian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has grown out of the author's research about Iraq and Palestine 1932-41, written in Tel Aviv University.

Armenian Sacred and Folk Music

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136801847
Total Pages : 202 pages
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Book Synopsis Armenian Sacred and Folk Music by : Komitas Vardapet Komitas

Download or read book Armenian Sacred and Folk Music written by Komitas Vardapet Komitas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by E. Gulbekian, edited with introduction by N.V. Nersessian. Komitas Vardapet was the giant of Armenian sacred and folk music. Eight of Komitas's principal musicological studies have been selected from his Collected Works published in Yerevan in 1941.

Sacred Darkness

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Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609454936
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Book Synopsis Sacred Darkness by : Levan Berdzenishvili

Download or read book Sacred Darkness written by Levan Berdzenishvili and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on true events, this novel set in a Soviet prison is “both a feat of fractured storytelling and a beautiful excavation of a recent, haunting past” (Publishers Weekly). As a political dissident, Berdzenishvili lands in jail, serving a sentence on trumped-up charges of activism and agitation. But rather than being the hell he expected, jail allows him access to a wide array of intellectuals, professionals, citizens of all walks of life, many of whom, he freely admits, he would not have had the chance to meet if he had not been in jail. Here he bears witness to those lives. Each chapter carries a single person’s name and focuses on a single story. Collectively, however, these portraits create a multifaceted and vast picture of life in the Soviet Union, including during its demise. A nation seeks to suppress its brightest citizens, to keep them locked away in the dark. But in that darkness, unbeknown to the jailor, bonds stronger than walls were forming.

The Letter of Love and Concord

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004192107
Total Pages : 488 pages
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Book Synopsis The Letter of Love and Concord by : Zara Pogossian

Download or read book The Letter of Love and Concord written by Zara Pogossian and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Letter of Love and Concord” is a unique source, which allows us a glimpse into the political and religious aspirations of the Armenian Cilician elite at the end of the twelfth century, alluding to its hopes and expectations from the Crusades and the Church of Rome, as well as its uneasy relationship with the Byzantine Empire. The “Letter” is especially valuable for the wealth of information it contains on the royal ideology nurtured within the highest circles of the ruling Rubenid dynasty. The study provides an analysis of the sources used by its anonymous author, placing them within a historical context. Moreover, this marks the first time that a text based on the study of surviving sixty nine manuscripts along with its English translation has been made available for scholars.

Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253018420
Total Pages : 289 pages
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Book Synopsis Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul by : Merih Erol

Download or read book Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul written by Merih Erol and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the musical discourse among Ottoman Greek Orthodox Christians during a complicated time for them in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the late Ottoman period (1856–1922), a time of contestation about imperial policy toward minority groups, music helped the Ottoman Greeks in Istanbul define themselves as a distinct cultural group. A part of the largest non-Muslim minority within a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire, the Greek Orthodox educated elite engaged in heated discussions about their cultural identity, Byzantine heritage, and prospects for the future, at the heart of which were debates about the place of traditional liturgical music in a community that was confronting modernity and westernization. Merih Erol draws on archival evidence from ecclesiastical and lay sources dealing with understandings of Byzantine music and history, forms of religious chanting, the life stories of individual cantors, and other popular and scholarly sources of the period. Audio examples keyed to the text are available online. “Merih Erol’s careful examination of the prominent church cantors of this period, their opinions on Byzantine, Ottoman and European musics as well as their relationship with both the Patriarchate and wealthy Greeks of Istanbul presents a detailed picture of a community trying to define their national identity during a transition. . . . Her study is unique and detailed, and her call to pluralism is timely.” —Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, author of The Musician Mehters “Overall, the book impresses me as a sophisticated work that avoids the standard nationalist views on the history of the Ottoman Greeks.” —Risto Pekka Pennanen, University of Tampere, Finland “This book is a great contribution to the fields of historical ethnomusicology, religious studies, ethnic studies, and Ottoman and Greek studies. It offers timely research during a critical period for ethnic minorities in the Middle East in general and Christians in particular as they undergo persecution and forced migration.” —Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Armenian Affairs

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book Armenian Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444333615
Total Pages : 554 pages
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Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity written by Ken Parry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this Companion offers an unparalleled survey of the history, theology, doctrine, worship, art, culture and politics that make up the churches of Eastern Christianity. Covers both Byzantine traditions (such as the Greek, Russian and Georgian churches) and Oriental traditions (such as the Armenian, Coptic and Syrian churches) Brings together an international team of experts to offer the first book of its kind on the subject of Eastern Christianity Contributes to our understanding of recent political events in the Middle East and Eastern Europe by providing much needed background information May be used alongside The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999) for a complete student resource

Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies

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Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Redefining Christian Identity

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Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042914186
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Book Synopsis Redefining Christian Identity by : Jan J. Ginkel

Download or read book Redefining Christian Identity written by Jan J. Ginkel and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural interaction in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam - such was the title of a combined research project of the Universities of Leiden and Groningen aimed at describing the various ways in which the Christian communities of the Middle East expressed their distinct cultural identity in Muslim societies. As part of the project the symposium "Redefining Christian Identity, Christian cultural strategies since the rise of Islam" took place at Groningen University on April 7-10, 1999. This book contains the proceedings of this conference. From the articles it becomes clear that a number of distinct "cultural strategies" can be identified, some of which were used very frequently, others only in certain groups or at particular periods of time. The three main strategies that are represented in the papers of this volume are: (i) reinterpretation of the pre-Islamic Christian heritage; (ii) inculturation of elements from the new Islamic context; (iii) isolation from the Islamic context. Viewed in time, it is clear that the reinterpretation of older Christian heritage was particularly important in the first two centuries after the rise of Islam, the seventh and eighth centuries, that inculturation was the dominant theme of the Abbasid period, in the ninth to twelfth centuries, whereas from the Mongol period onwards, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, isolation more and more often occurs, although inculturation of elements from the predominantly Muslim environment never came to a complete standstill.

Poets, Heroes, and their Dragons (2 vols)

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446073X
Total Pages : 1629 pages
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Book Synopsis Poets, Heroes, and their Dragons (2 vols) by : James R. Russell

Download or read book Poets, Heroes, and their Dragons (2 vols) written by James R. Russell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 1629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is a collection of articles published by Professor James R. Russell of Harvard University, in various journals over the past decades.

A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature, 1500-1920

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Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814327470
Total Pages : 746 pages
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Book Synopsis A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature, 1500-1920 by : Kevork B. Bardakjian

Download or read book A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature, 1500-1920 written by Kevork B. Bardakjian and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Armenian writers and literature spanning five centuries. Combining features of a reference work, bibliographic guide, and literary history, it records the output of almost 400 authors who wrote both in Armenia and in the communities of the Armenian diaspora. Presents a general history of the literature, with chapters devoted to a single century and prefaced by information on the era's social, cultural, and religious milieus; followed by a section of biobibliographical entries for Armenian authors, a section of bibliographies and reference works, and a listing of anthologies of literature both in Armenian and in translation. Includes references to earlier authors and to sources of influence, both Armenian and non-Armenian. A final section contains bibliographies devoted to particular genres and periods, such as minstrels, folklore, and prosody. A thematic discussion of the works of more than 150 poets, historians, monks, and others highlights the themes that captured the imagination of Armenian authors.--From publisher description.

The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov

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Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299296539
Total Pages : 329 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov by : James Steffen

Download or read book The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov written by James Steffen and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergei Parajanov (1924–90) flouted the rules of both filmmaking and society in the Soviet Union and paid a heavy personal price. An ethnic Armenian in the multicultural atmosphere of Tbilisi, Georgia, he was one of the most innovative directors of postwar Soviet cinema. Parajanov succeeded in creating a small but marvelous body of work whose style embraces such diverse influences as folk art, medieval miniature painting, early cinema, Russian and European art films, surrealism, and Armenian, Georgian, and Ukrainian cultural motifs. The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov is the first English-language book on the director's films and the most comprehensive study of his work. James Steffen provides a detailed overview of Parajanov's artistic career: his identity as an Armenian in Georgia and its impact on his aesthetics; his early films in Ukraine; his international breakthrough in 1964 with Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors; his challenging 1969 masterpiece, The Color of Pomegranates, which was reedited against his wishes; his unrealized projects in the 1970s; and his eventual return to international prominence in the mid-to-late 1980s with The Legend of the Surami Fortress and Ashik-Kerib. Steffen also provides a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the Soviet film censorship process and tells the dramatic story of Parajanov's conflicts with the authorities, culminating in his 1973–77 arrest and imprisonment on charges related to homosexuality. Ultimately, the figure of Parajanov offers a fascinating case study in the complicated dynamics of power, nationality, politics, ethnicity, sexuality, and culture in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine