KOMITAS AND MEDIEVAL MUSIC CULTURE

September 27 | Komitas Museum-Institute

Conference Opening and Welcoming Remarks

Keynote speeches

Alina Pahlevanyan (Armenia) | Komitas and the Problems of Armenian Music Folkloristics
Regina Randhofer (Germany) | Komitas and Berlin Musicology

Anna Arevshatyan (Armenia) | About A Fact from the Music Life of Ani, Mentioned in the Letters of Grigor Magistros

First Session

KOMITAS AND HIS TIME PERIOD

Tatevik Shakhkulyan (Armenia) | Komitas and the XX Century Western Music

Jonathan McCollum (USA) | Komitas Vardapet and Nikoghayos Tigranyan․ Globalization in the Contexts of Folk and Western Art Musical Interactions

Lusine Sahakyan (Armenia) | Komitas Vardapet and the Russian Culture

Claudine Bellamy and Michel Caire (France) | About the Psychiatric Stays of Father Komitas

Second Session

RETHINKING KOMITAS (A)

Anna Asatryan (Armenia) | The Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and the Study of Komitas’s Heritage

Meri Kirakosyan (Armenia) | The Devotees of the Armenian Culture: Komitas and Panos Terlemezyan

Margarita Kamalyan (Armenia) | Some Portraits of Komitas Vardapet

Third Session

KOMITAS AND ARMENIAN FOLK MUSIC

Lilit Yernjakyan (Armenia) | Komitas and National Musical Identity

Hripsime Pikichian (Armenia) | The Modern Life of the “Horovel”: Following Komitas’s Path

Marianna Tigranyan (Armenia) | The “Lorik” Traditional Epithalamiums in Komitas’s Transcription

Gagik Ginosyan (Armenia) | Komitas’s Armenian Folk Dance Heritage

September 28 | Komitas Museum-Institute

Fourth Session

RETHINKING KOMITAS (B)

Nikolay Kostandyan (Armenia) | The Epistolary Correspondence of Komitas and Margarit Babayan

Alice Ayvazian (Cyprus) | Komitas Vardapet and the Khaz Notation System
Alyssa Mathias (USA) | Komitas, Pérotin, and Hildegard: Programming Armenian Folk Music in United States and Western European Early Music Ensembles

Hasmik Harutyunyan (Armenia) | Komitas: Teaching with Choral Songs

September 29 | Haghpat Monastery Complex

Fifth Session

MEDIEVAL MUSIC

Natalia Ramazanova (Russia) | “Martyr and Pastor”: Stichera Transcribed in the Russian Notated Manuscripts of the Middle of the XVII Century, Dedicated to Saint Bishop Gregory, the Illuminator of Great Armenia

Anahit Baghdasaryan (Armenia) | On the Armenian Book of Hours
Tatyana Shvets (Russia) | Hymnography Dedicated to the Saint Martyr Gregory of Armenia in the Manuscripts of the Epoch of the
Studites

Astghik Musheghyan (Armenia) | Taghs and Meghedies of the Armenian Liturgy

Ani Musheghyan (Armenia) | The Main Tendencies of the Armenian Musical-Theoretical Thought in the XVIII Century

Sixth Session

THE EIGHT-MODE SYSTEM IN ARMENIAN MUSIC

Mher Navoyan (Armenia) | The Dating of One of the Oldest Documents Related to the Armenian Eight-Mode System

Gayane Amiraghyan (Armenia) | Komitas’s Methodology for the Analysis of Mode

Lilit Harutyunyan (Armenia) | The Eight-Mode System in the Incipits of the Mekhitarist Tradition of Armenian Hymnody

Astghik Musheghyan (Armenia) | Taghs and Meghedies of the Armenian Liturgy

Nane Misakyan (Armenia) | Observations on the Eight-Mode System Based on Two Armash Manuscripts From the Mashtots Matenadaran