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Thanks to Armenian composers who studied in the west. The initial Modal & Monodic nature (That is, excluding the concept of Harmony) of traditional Armenian music condensed the musical creativity in the horizontal line. This resulted in a very intense melodic expressivity and a rich rhythmic variety(initially adopting contrapunatic form inaugurated by Father <a href="/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas">Komitas</a>), posed a new challenges like that of choosing harmonies that would respect the modal nature of the Armenian melody, specially the melismatic aspect of it. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2>Contents</h2></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Traditional_Instruments"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Traditional Instruments</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Christian_music"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Christian music</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Folk_music"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Folk music</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#The_Armenian_Diaspora"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">The Armenian Diaspora</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Classical_music"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Classical music</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Pop_music"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Pop music</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Rock_Music"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Rock Music</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Armenian_Music_Awards"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Armenian Music Awards</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Samples"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Samples</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">12</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Traditional_Instruments">Traditional Instruments</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/index.php?title=Davul&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Davul (page does not exist)">Davul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duduk" title="Duduk">Duduk</a><a class="external autonumber" href="http://www.armenian-duduk-music">[1]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhol" title="Dhol">Dhol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tar" title="Tar">Tar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanon" title="Kanon">Kanon</a></li> <li><a href="/index.php?title=Oud&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oud (page does not exist)">Oud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shvi" title="Shvi">Shvi</a></li> <li><a href="/index.php?title=Sring&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sring (page does not exist)">Sring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zurna" title="Zurna">Zurna</a></li></ul> <p>Get more info from: <a class="external free" href="http://www.music.ch/face/instrum/armenia_instrum.html">http://www.music.ch/face/instrum/armenia_instrum.html</a> </p><p><a class="external free" href="http://www.duduk.com">http://www.duduk.com</a> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Christian_music">Christian music</span></h2> <p>Melismatic chanting, composed in one of eight modes, is the most common kind of religious music in Armenia. It is written in <a href="/wiki/Khaz" title="Khaz">khaz</a>, a form of indigenous musical notation. Many of these chants are ancient in origin, extending to pre-Christian times, while others are relatively modern, including several composed by Saint <a href="/wiki/Mesrop_Mashtots" title="Mesrop Mashtots">Mesrop Mashtots</a>, who invented the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Alphabet" title="Armenian Alphabet">Armenian alphabet</a>. Some of the best performers of these chants, or <a href="/index.php?title=Sharakan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sharakan (page does not exist)">sharakans</a>, are at the <a href="/wiki/Ejmiatsin_Cathedral_Compound" class="mw-redirect" title="Ejmiatsin Cathedral Compound">Holy Cathedral of Etchmiadzin</a>, and include the late soprano <a href="/wiki/Lucine_Zakarian" title="Lucine Zakarian">Lucine Zakarian</a>. </p><p>Armenian religious music remained liturgical until <a href="/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas">Komitas</a> Vardapet introduced polyphony in the end of the 19th century. He collected more than 3,000 folk songs from 1899 to 1910. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Folk_music">Folk music</span></h2> <p>While under <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> domination, Armenian folk music was taught in a rigidly controlled manner at conservatoires. Instruments played in this way include <a href="/wiki/Kanon" title="Kanon">kanon</a> (<a href="/index.php?title=Dulcimer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dulcimer (page does not exist)">dulcimer</a>), <a href="/wiki/Dhol" title="Dhol">dhol</a> (double-headed hand drum), <a href="/index.php?title=Oud&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oud (page does not exist)">oud</a> (<a href="/index.php?title=Lute&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lute (page does not exist)">lute</a>), <a href="/index.php?title=Tar_(musical_instrument)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tar (musical instrument) (page does not exist)">tar</a> (short-necked lute) and <a href="/wiki/Zurna" title="Zurna">zurna</a> (<a href="/index.php?title=Shawm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shawm (page does not exist)">shawm</a>). The <a href="/wiki/Duduk" title="Duduk">duduk</a><a class="external autonumber" href="http://www.armenian-duduk-music.com">[2]</a> is especially important, and its stars include <a href="/index.php?title=Gevorg_Dabagian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gevorg Dabagian (page does not exist)">Gevorg Dabagian</a> and <a href="/index.php?title=Yeghish_Manoukian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yeghish Manoukian (page does not exist)">Yeghish Manoukian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vatche_Housepian" title="Vatche Housepian">Vatche Housepian</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Antranik_Askarian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Antranik Askarian (page does not exist)">Antranik Askarian</a>, <a class="external text" href="http://www.duduk.com/Arm-music-ins/Albert/index.html">Albert Vardanyan </a> as well as Armenia's most famous duduk player, <a href="/wiki/Dijvan_Gasparian" class="mw-redirect" title="Dijvan Gasparian">Dijvan Gasparian</a>. </p><p>Earlier in Armenian history, instruments like the <a href="/index.php?title=Kamancha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kamancha (page does not exist)">kamancha</a> were played by popular, travelling musicians called <a href="/index.php?title=Ashugh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ashugh (page does not exist)">ashughs</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sayat_Nova" title="Sayat Nova">Sayat Nova</a>, an 18th century, ashugh, is still revered, as are more modern canonical performers of Armenian traditional music like <a href="/wiki/Armenag_Shah-Mouradian" title="Armenag Shah-Mouradian">Armenag Shah-Mouradian</a>, Vagharshak Sahakian, <a href="/wiki/Norayr_Mnatsakanyan" title="Norayr Mnatsakanyan">Norayr Mnatsakanyan</a>, Raffi Hovhannisyan, Hayrik Muradyan, <a href="/index.php?title=Hovhannes_Badalyan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hovhannes Badalyan (page does not exist)">Hovhannes Badalyan</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Rouben_Matevosian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rouben Matevosian (page does not exist)">Rouben Matevosian</a>, and Papin Poghosyan. The most notable female vocalists in the traditional genre have been <a href="/wiki/Araksia_Gyulzadyan" title="Araksia Gyulzadyan">Araksia Gyulzadyan</a>, Lusik Koschyan, <a href="/wiki/Ophelia_Hambardzumyan" title="Ophelia Hambardzumyan">Ophelia Hambardzumyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Varduhi_Khachatrian" title="Varduhi Khachatrian">Varduhi Khachatrian</a>, Valya Samvelyan, Flora Martirosian, Rima Saribekyan, Manik Grigoryan, and Susanna Safaryan. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Arto_Tuncboyaciyan" title="Arto Tuncboyaciyan">Arto Tuncboyaciyan</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Navy_Band" title="Armenian Navy Band">Armenian Navy Band</a> (ANB) is a contemporary Armenian musician who has been taking Traditional Armenian Folk Music to new frontiers fusing it with other types of world music and jazz. Some members of the Armenian Navy Band have their own groups that perform when the band is not playing together. Artyom (bassist) is one such example, and <a href="/wiki/Vahagn_Hairapetyan" title="Vahagn Hairapetyan">Vahagn Hairapetyan</a> (keyboard) is another. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Armenian_Diaspora">The Armenian Diaspora</span></h2> <p>In 1915, the <a href="/wiki/Young_Turk" class="mw-redirect" title="Young Turk">Young Turk</a> regime killed a large number of Armenians in the eastern part of <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>, and oppressed Armenian culture, leading to widespread emigration. These emigrants settled in various countries, especially in Central California, and the second- and third-generation have kept their folk traditions alive, with <a href="/index.php?title=Oud&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Oud (page does not exist)">oud</a>-player <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hagopian" title="Richard Hagopian">Richard Hagopian</a> being perhaps the most famous of these musicians. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Classical_music">Classical music</span></h2> <p>There have been many famous Armenian composers whose music was performed worldwide, the most famous, however, was <a href="/index.php?title=Aram_Khatchaturian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aram Khatchaturian (page does not exist)">Aram Khatchaturian</a>, internationally well known especially for his music for ballets <a href="/index.php?title=Gayane&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gayane (page does not exist)">Gayane</a> (which includes the immortal Sabre Dance) and Spartacus. </p><p>Other Armenian classical composers include Tigran Tchoukhajian, Aleksander Spendiarian, Barsegh Kanachyan, <a href="/index.php?title=Edward_Mirzoyan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward Mirzoyan (page does not exist)">Edward Mirzoyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arno_Babajanian" title="Arno Babajanian">Arno Babajanian</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Alexander_Harutiunyan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Harutiunyan (page does not exist)">Alexander Harutiunyan</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Armen_Tigranyan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Armen Tigranyan (page does not exist)">Armen Tigranyan</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Edgar_Hovhannessyan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edgar Hovhannessyan (page does not exist)">Edgar Hovhannessyan</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Loris_Chobanian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Loris Chobanian (page does not exist)">Loris Chobanian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness" title="Alan Hovhaness">Alan Hovhaness</a> etc. Composers such as <a href="/wiki/Avet_Terterian" title="Avet Terterian">Avet Terterian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tigran_Mansuryan" title="Tigran Mansuryan">Tigran Mansuryan</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Ashot_Zohrabyan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ashot Zohrabyan (page does not exist)">Ashot Zohrabyan</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Martin_Israelyan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Martin Israelyan (page does not exist)">Martin Israelyan</a>,<a href="/index.php?title=Vache_Sharafyan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vache Sharafyan (page does not exist)">Vache Sharafyan</a><a class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sharafyan.tripod.com">[3]</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aram_Petrosyan" title="Aram Petrosyan">Aram Petrosyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edward_Manukyan" title="Edward Manukyan">Edward Manukyan</a> and <a href="/index.php?title=Haig_Vartan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Haig Vartan (page does not exist)">Haig Vartan </a> can be classified as "modern classical". </p><p>Classical music and the operatic genre have always been indispensable to Armenian vocal performing arts. The most outstanding representatives of Classical Armenian vocal performing arts have been sopranos: Haykanush Danielyan, <a href="/wiki/Gohar_Gasparian" title="Gohar Gasparian">Gohar Gasparian</a>, Gohar Galachian, Tatevik Sazandarian, Anna Nshanian, <a href="/wiki/Arpine_Pehlivanian" title="Arpine Pehlivanian">Arpine Pehlivanian</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Melania_Abovian&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Melania Abovian (page does not exist)">Melania Abovian</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Arax_Mansuryan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arax Mansuryan (page does not exist)">Arax Mansuryan</a>, Lucine Amara, Cathy Berberian, <a href="/wiki/Ellada_Chakhoyan" title="Ellada Chakhoyan">Ellada Chakhoyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hasmik_Papian" title="Hasmik Papian">Hasmik Papian</a>, Anahit Nersisyan, and more recently, Isabel Bayrakdarian and Anna Mailyan; tenors Tigran Levonyan, Gegham Grigoryan and Vahan Mirakyan, basses Shara Talian, Avag Petrosian, and Henrik Alaverdyan, as well as the bass-baritone Barsegh Tumanian. </p><p>Instrumentalists who have gained international stature include pianists <a href="/wiki/Sahan_Arzruni" title="Sahan Arzruni">Sahan Arzruni</a>, Artur Papazian, Sergei Babayan, Avo Kouyoumdjian, Vardan Mamikonian, Vahan Martirossian and <a href="/wiki/Serouj_Kradjian" title="Serouj Kradjian">Serouj Kradjian</a>; Violinists Rouben Aharonian, Jean Ter-Mergerian, <a href="/wiki/Anahit_Tsitsikian" title="Anahit Tsitsikian">Anahit Tsitsikian</a>, Levon Chilingirian, Manouk Parikian, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Sergey Khachatryan: violist Kim Kashkashian; cellists Suren Bagratuni and Alexander Chaushian. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Pop_music">Pop music</span></h2> <p>In pop music, Suzan Yakar and Udi Hrant Kenkulian were famous cabaret singers in Turkey during the 1920s and 1930s. The most prominent female representatives of modern Armenian pop music include Bella Darbinyan, Raisa Mkrtchyan, and the Armenian male pop performers in the world today are Adiss Harmandian, Paul Baghdadlian, Sahag Sislian, Harout Pamboukjian, Joseph Krikorian, Garo Gomidas, Vrej Sahagian, Ararad Aharonian, Gomidas Band & Hovsep, Koko & The Sbidag Band, Paul Baghdadlian Jr., Robert Chilingirian, Sako, Zareh, Garo Gaboudagian, Andre and Arsen Grigorian are prominent Armenian & International performers. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Rock_Music">Rock Music</span></h2> <dl><dd><i>for full article see <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Rock_Music" title="Armenian Rock Music">Armenian Rock Music</a></i></dd></dl> <p>Rock and roll is a musical genre, originated from United States. It was greatly restricted for most of the period Armenia was under Soviet rule as american anti-communist influence, but following the loosening of control in the early 1980s, a number of Armenian rock bands became prominent. The first was <a href="/index.php?title=Thessilk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thessilk (page does not exist)">Thessilk</a>, who formed in 1983. </p><p>In 1982 a band called <a href="/wiki/Bambir" title="Bambir">Bambir</a> won the Folk Music Award at the International Festival in Lida, Belarus. They combined rock with Armenian folk and classical music. Later folk-rock bands include <a href="/index.php?title=Vostan_Hayots&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vostan Hayots (page does not exist)">Vostan Hayots</a>. </p><p>Later in the 80s, as the Soviet rock scene grew larger, bands like <a href="/wiki/Ayas" title="Ayas">Ayas</a> found international audiences. <a href="/wiki/Ayas" title="Ayas">Ayas</a> formed in 1987, and only a year later won Yerevan's Rock, Rock, Rock Festival best composition of the year award. They later won the Sisian Rock Festival as well. </p><p>In the early 1990s, an Armenian progressive rock scene developed. <a href="/index.php?title=Dumbarton_Oaks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dumbarton Oaks (page does not exist)">Dumbarton Oaks</a> was one of the first to combine rock with classical music, in compositions like "Once Upon a Time There Lived a Cadence". Later in the decade, bands like <a href="/index.php?title=Artsruni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Artsruni (page does not exist)">Artsruni</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oaksenham" title="Oaksenham">Oaksenham</a> gained an international following. </p><p>Some of the leading Armenian rock musicians are drummer Marek Zaborsky, who performs with a dozen local bands in Yerevan, guitarist Arthur Margarian, singer Samvel Tsovak etc. All of these musicians often experiment with folk-rock ganre and are quite successful today. </p><p>Other popular Armenian rock bands include <a class="external text" href="http://www.alterego.am">AlterEgo</a> <a href="/index.php?title=Lav_Eli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lav Eli (page does not exist)">Lav Eli</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=The_Beautified_Project&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Beautified Project (page does not exist)">The Beautified Project</a>, <a href="/index.php?title=Empyray&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Empyray (page does not exist)">Empyray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manic_Depression" title="Manic Depression">Manic Depression</a> (MDP) and <a href="/wiki/Bambir(2)" title="Bambir(2)">Bambir(2)</a> (formed by the son of one the members of the original band Bambir). </p><p><a href="/wiki/System_of_a_Down" title="System of a Down">System of a Down</a> is the only famous Armenian-American Band. The band <a href="/wiki/Aviatic" title="Aviatic">Aviatic</a> contains Armenian band members. Poland also has an Armenian rock band called <a href="/index.php?title=36i6_Band&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="36i6 Band (page does not exist)">36i6 Band</a>. </p><p>A very good overview of Armenian Rock music can be found at the Arm in Rock website. <a class="external free" href="http://www.arminrock.am/six_waves.php">http://www.arminrock.am/six_waves.php</a> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Armenian_Music_Awards">Armenian Music Awards</span></h2> <p>The first <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Music_Awards" title="Armenian Music Awards">Armenian Music Awards</a> was held in 1999. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Samples">Samples</span></h2> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Erivanbachemarer.ogg">Download recording</a> of "Erivan bachem arer", an Armenian-American folk song from the Library of Congress' <i>California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties Collection</i>; performed a cappella by Ruben J. Baboyan on April 16, 1939 in <a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Fresno, California">Fresno, California</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/coweth.html">WPA California Folk Music Project on the Library of Congress site</a> - Click on Armenians, then choose from 105 records made by Armenians who immigrated to Fresno</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h2> <ul><li>Hagopian, Harold. "The Sorrowful Sound". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), <i>World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle East</i>, pp 332-337. Rough Guides Ltd, Penguin Books. 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