The Key to the Armenian Neumes
The Key to the Armenian Neumes

Summary/Abstract: Komitas Vardapet devoted twenty years of his life to explore the medieval Armenian music and its neumes system. Unfortunately, Komitas’s experiences in exile had left him psychologically disturbed and mentally exhausted, so he was incapable of returning to his work or publishing his discoveries; his notes were never heard of again. The article opens a long-locked door into the ancient world of Armenian liturgical music, being based on Komitas’s research. It simply tries to rediscover the long-lost “key’’ for understanding thousands of pieces of medieval Armenian music and to interpret the composer’s research.

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