Kurdish melodies

"Kurdish melodies" (Armenian: Քրդական եղանակներ, romanizedK'rdakan yeghanakner, lit.'Kurdish melodies',[1][2] Kurdish: Awazên Kurdî[3]) is a collection of Kurdish folk songs collected and transcribed by Armenian composer Komitas during field work among Kurds and published in December 1903.[4] Despite collecting a large amount of Kurdish melodies, most of them were lost, and Kurdish melodies became the only publication of Kurdish songs by Komitas.[5][6] Kurdish melodies would consequently become the first publication of Kurdish music.[4]

  1. ^ "K'rdakan eghanakner = Mélodies kurdes / recueillies par Archimandrite Comitas" (PDF) (in French, Kurdish, and Armenian). Moscow: 1–12. Retrieved 25 March 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ Geodakyan, G.; Atayan, R., eds. (2006). Հայ ժողովրդական և աշուղական երգեր, նվագներ: Թուրքական երգեր, քրդական երգեր և նվագներ: Գիրք Զ (in Armenian). Yerevan: Gitutyun. p. 117. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  3. ^ "Konferansek li ser Komitas". Yeni Özgür Politika (in Kurdish). 23 April 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b Sylvia Angelique Alajaji (2015). Music and the Armenian Diaspora: Searching for Home in Exile. Indiana University Press. p. 168. ISBN 9780253017765.
  5. ^ Anna Asatryan (2019). "Komitas and the ways of development of Armenian music (to the 150th anniversary of Komitas)" (PDF) (in English, Armenian, and Russian). Retrieved 25 March 2020. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ Vrej Nersessian (2019). Essays On Armenian Music. London: Routledge. p. 18. ISBN 978-1135879419.

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