“Some manifestations of national features in piano works of Komitas”

Authors

  • Zaruhi David Ghazaryan Yerevan State Conservatory

Abstract

Pianist, concertmaster, pedagogue of YSC Zaruhi David Ghazaryan. - “Some manifestations of national features in piano works of Komitas”. In the article the author considers the role and importance of Komitas as a composer and specifically analyzes his piano works, based on the editions of Komitas’s “Dances” in 1925 in Paris, further - in the 6th volume of the Complete Collection of Works published in 1982 in Yerevan. In addition to “Dances” the author analyzes “Children’s Play” composed in Constantinople in 1912- 1913. A comparative analysis is also given with the creative approach to writing works for children by B. Bartock (“3 small polyphonic cycles” with some plays from the cycle “Microcosmos”, “Children's Play”- with the cycle”Children”).  

Author Biography

Zaruhi David Ghazaryan , Yerevan State Conservatory

(born in 1972. in Yerevan). In 1990 she entered Secondary Music School after P. I. Tchaikovsky (class I. Grigoryan). In 1995 she entered YSC the piano department (class I. Tsaturyan, then prof. V. Aharonyana). In 1997 she started graduate studies at YSC and graduated in 1997 (class prof. A. Bogdanyan). In 1996 she joined the Department of Piano Specialists in the class of A. Babakhanyan as an assistant, since 1999 she is a pedagogue in the same department. Since 2002 she has also taught in the department of concert training. She is currently a docent in the department of concert training. Since 2005 she has also been secretary in the same department. Many of its graduates today work in many music schools and colleges both in Armenia and in many cities of Russia and abroad. She is the author of teaching aids and articles: Pages of the history of Armenian piano music.,//Musical Armenia 3-4 (10-11) 2003 pp. 47-49; Pages of History of Armenian Piano Works.,//Musical Armenia 3-4 (22) 2006 P.. 80-82. In May 2008 she participated in the international conference "Dialogue of Cultures: excerpts from Armenian-Russian cultural heritage," a collection of articles of the conference; "The role of Accompaniment and the path of romance in the works of Armenian composers",//Musical Armenia 2 (51) 2016 P. 17-19. Author and editor of note collections and educational - methodological works: "Some artistic and pedagogical features of piano miniatures for children of Komitas," 2 issues, Yer.: Science of Publishing RA AS, 2004; Komitas. Author and editor of note collections and educational - methodological works: "Some artistic and pedagogical features of piano miniatures for children of Komitas," 2 issues, Yer.: Science of Publishing RA AS, 2004; Komitas. selected solo songs,/Ep., 2005; Komitas Spiritual Tags, Songs, Solo Songs, Yer.: YSC Publishing House, 2006; "On Some Artistic and Pedagogical Features of Piano Miniatures for Children (Methodical Manual), Yer.: Komitas, 2008; The Role of Accompaniment in the Romances of Armenian Composers, Educational and Methodical Manual, Yer.: Van Aryan, 2011; Aram Khachaturian. Collection of vocal works, Yer.: Astghik, 2013; Reading of choral scores (for pianists and consertmaster)., Yer.: Amrodz Group, 2015.  

References

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Կոմիտաս, Երկերի ժողովածու, 6-րդ հատոր, (Առաջաμան` Ռ. Աթայան), Եր., Սովետական գրող, 1982 թ.։Komitas, Yerkeri jvoghvovatsu, 6-rd hator, (Ar’ajaban` R.Atayan, Yer., Svovetakan grvogh, 1982 th

Ույֆալուշ Յ., Բելա Բարտոկ, Բուդապեշտ, 1971 թ.:Uyfalush Y., Bela Bartok, Budapesht, 1971 th.

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Published

2022-11-04

How to Cite

Ghazaryan Զ. Դ. (2022). “Some manifestations of national features in piano works of Komitas”. Musical Armenia, 1(56), 14–17. Retrieved from https://yerazhshtakanhayastan.am/index.php/ma/article/view/146

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 56 (2019): Musical Armenia

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Articles