New Bilingual Edition Children's Songs

"Dear child, cheerful child, one day you too will grow up and become an adult... Dear child, radiant child, love nature..."

With these affectionate words by Komitas begins the eighth volume of the A Thousand and One Songs series—Children's Songs, a new bilingual publication by the Komitas Museum-Institute.

Rich in exceptionally vivid and inspiring material, the volume brings together Armenian traditional children's and play songs collected from various regions of Historic Armenia, including Van, Ani, Kars, Sasun, Mush, Agulis, Shatakh, and others.

The volume was compiled and edited by Astghik Martirosyan and Sona Simonyan, with contributions from Lilit Harutyunyan, Tsovinar Artsruni, Gayane Amiraghyan, and Marianna Tigranyan. The translation was prepared by Shaghik Shahinyan, the academic consultant was Alina Pahlevanyan, the book was designed by Samvel Melkonyan, and the illustrations were created by students of the Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics together with Astghik Martirosyan.

The publication is now available at the Komitas Museum-Institute bookshop.