“The role of Komitas in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century in the development of Armenian musical education”.

Authors

  • Nune Romeo Atanasyan Yerevan State Conservatory

Keywords:

Education, Nersisyan School, Gevorgyan Seminary, Yekmalyan, Kara-Murza, Demuryan, Komitas, Music Theory, Ten advices for singer

Abstract

Musicologist, pedagogue of YSC Nune Romeo Atanasyan. — “The role of Komitas in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century in the development of Armenian musical education”. The article presents the role of Komitas in the development of music education. Continuing the experience of Ekmalyan, Kara-Murza and other figures of Armenian musical culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Komitas offers his systematic vision of Armenian national music education, reflected in his articles, textbooks on the theory of music and harmony, in his ten advices to the singer. They also play an important role in the modern teaching method used in various disciplines of YSC.   

Author Biography

Nune Romeo Atanasyan , Yerevan State Conservatory

(born in 1967, Yerevan). In 1990 she graduated from YSC Department of Musicologyprofessional class of Professor Margarita Gabriel Harutyunyan From 1993 till today works in YSC in the department of Armenian musicalfolklore studies. Lecturer teaches Armenian folk music and Armenian spiritual music courses and also from 2001 till today she is a lecturerof YSC's department of music theory she teaches courses of "Harmony", "Solfejjio" and "Western musical theoretical systems". From 2000she is an Armenia Chamber Choir Singer, artistic director Robert Mlkeyan. From 2008 she is a music expert and the member of commissionof television game "Armenian knight" (Hay Aspet). She is an author of scientific articles "Stepan Demouryan's "Armenian folk songs" unpublished collection" //Musical Armenia 1 (24) 2007, "Stepan Demouryan's role in the development of Armenian culture and education",//Musical Armenia 4 (31), 2008-1 (32) 2009. p. 75-77, Stepan Demuryan "Armenian folk songs" ,"Armenian folk songs and plays", YSCseries 9, 2013, "Sahak Amatuni's "Folk songs recorded collection"" /"Armenian folk songs and plays", YSC, series, 11, 2014.  

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Published

2022-11-04

How to Cite

Atanasyan Ն. Ռ. (2022). “The role of Komitas in the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century in the development of Armenian musical education”. Musical Armenia, 1(56), 9–13. Retrieved from https://yerazhshtakanhayastan.am/index.php/ma/article/view/145