Armenian Music: Cultural Exchange & Plurality

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(Armenian Music: Cultural Exchange & Plurality)
(0:05) Much of present-day Armenian territory has been disputed throughout the last 2,000 years.
(0:14) By the 19th Century, Armenia was dominated by the Russian Empire in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adminis....
(0:18) ...and the Ottoman Empire in the West.
(0:23) Middle Eastern musical practices can be heard in some Armenian music practices, including monody...
(0:27) ...irregular rhythms...
(0:29) ...and microtonal intervallic structures.
(0:35) Perhaps predating the Greek ‘church modes,’ Armenian scalar and harmonic structures are unique...
(0:40) ...and not reducible to Western modes.
(0:49) Communist Soviet ideology later worked its way into Armenian folk music.
(0:55) “Friends, what is the kolkhoz like?”
(0:59) “It is like a man that lives fair and works hard.”
(1:06) Komitas State University
(1:08) Conservatory training in European classical music flourished under Russian rule.
(1:15) Komitas Monument
(1:17) This produced a thriving culture that magnified the European classical canon...
(1:21) ...and encouraged composers of symphonic music...
(1:24) ...informed by the aesthetic values of European classical music.
(1:28) Armenian State Symphony Orchestra — Avet Terterian “Symphony No. 3”
(1:34) “Enzeli” from Yerevan Etudes, Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra - Alexander Spendiaryan (1871-1928)
(1:46) From the Final Scene of Anush - Nuneh Badalian with the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia - Armen Tigranian (1879-1950)
(1:55) Symphony No. 3, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Avet Terterian (1929-1994)
(2:03) “Dance of the Rose Maidens” National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, Aram KhatChaturian (1903-1978)
(2:16) Theme from Mer Mankutyan Tangon - Tigran Mansurian (1939-)
(2:26) ”Requiem for the Desert” - Narine Ananikyan mezzo, Artsvik Demurchyan soprano, Hover State CHamber Choir, Armenia National Philharmonic Orchestra - Vache Sharafyan (1966- )

General Links (Armenian Music: Cultural Exchange & Plurality)
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Production Credits
Author: Andrew J. Kluth
Producer: Rian Brown-Orso
Associate Producer: Kate Douglas
Editor: Emily Cohn
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