ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 5|19 pages

The Singing of the Holy Liturgy *

Review of Ergetsʻoghoutʻiwnkʻ Srboy Pataragi(‘The Singing of the Holy Liturgy').

chapter 8|4 pages

Book Review 1

Recueil des Chants Populaires Arméniens, no. I

chapter 9|11 pages

Church Music of the Armenians in the Nineteenth Century *

‘Tiratsou Baba'Hambardzoum Sargsian (1768-1839) and the invention of modern Armenian notation