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The Armenian lullaby is significant for its historical, cultural, and linguistic aspect beyond its purpose of comfort and serving as a bridge to sleep. Influenced in part by their region of origin, Armenian lullabies are characterized by a lightness in melody and the rhythm of simple, repeated phrases that mimic the sound of the rocking cradle.
This is a list of compositions by Garbis Aprikian. He said in an interview that in his compositions, he took melody mostly from Armenian music, but fused it with Western classical music 's harmonies when he arranged themes from Armenian folk music, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] calling it a "'noble' transcription of tradition".
The music of Armenia (Armenian: հայկական երաժշտություն haykakan yerazhshtut’yun) has its origins in the Armenian highlands, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE, [1] [2] and is a long-standing musical tradition that encompasses diverse secular and religious, or sacred, music (such as the sharakan Armenian chant and taghs, along with the indigenous khaz musical notation).
In the 5th century, the earliest Armenian chants were created by St. Mesrop Mashtots [5] who in addition to his compositional work, invented the Armenian alphabet. [6] With the onset of this new alphabet and the subsequent translation of the Bible into Armenian, there was a large incentive to create original Armenian hymns, distinct form those of the Greeks and other neighboring Christians. [7]
The Gampr is the traditional flock guardian dog of Armenia. From the 1920s, when Armenia came under the control of the Soviet Union, large numbers of the dogs were taken to Russia, where they played a crucial part in the development of the Caucasian Shepherd Dog, or Caucasian Ovcharka. A few were exported to the United States at about the same ...
In the 1920s-30s, the Armenian duduk was improved by the master V. With the musical instruments of Buni, who, mainly preserving the initial structure of the folk instrument, created 3 types of duduk of different registers. The last of them, which has the lowest (baritone) voice register, is known by the name of its designer, Bunifon. [59] [60]
Lullabies – soothing songs meant to lull children, teens, and adults to sleep. Pages in category "Lullabies" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 ...
This is a list of compositions by Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000), ordered by opus number. [1] [2] Composition dates shown in Roman font are as given at Hovhaness.com, [3] while conflicting dates from Kunze [4] or New Grove [5] are shown in italics. Similarly, instrumentation shown in Roman font is as given at the Hovhaness.com website.