KOMITAS: AT THE CROSSROADS OF TRADITION AND MODERNITY

September 28 | Grand Salon of Sorbonne University

 

First Session

KOMITAS VARDAPET

 

Anna Arevshatyan (Armenia) | "Komitas Vardapet as the Founder of Armenian Medieval Music Studies"

Lilit Yernjakyan (Armenia) | "Komitas’s National Musical Identity Paradigm and the Armenian Bard Tradition"

Tatevik Shakhkulyan (Armenia) | "Komitas’s Theory on Armenian Music Modes: Concord or Discord with Major/Minor?"

Lusine Sahakyan (Armenia) | "Komitas Vardapet and the French Culture"

Mher Navoyan (Armenia), Erica Bisesi (Italy) | "The Theoretical Bases of One of Komitas’s Concepts Concerning Armenian Secular and Sacred Music"

 

Second Session

FOLKLORE DIMENSION

 

Hrach Martirosyan (Netherlands) | "Armenian Musical Instruments: Three Etymologies"

Marianna Tigranyan (Armenia) | "Traces of Ancient Sumerian Epic Poetry in the Armenian Avetises"

Ani Hakobyan (Armenia) | " “Traditional” Subgroup of Lullaby in Armenian Folk Music"

Margarit Sargsyan (Armenia) | "Traditional Music Collecting Activities from Komitas to Our Days"

Hasmik Harutyunyan (Armenia) | "The Activity of the Ašuł Society in Aleksandrapole in the Context of Komitas’s Fundamental Theory"

 

Thirs Session

MEDIEVAL SPACES

 

Marina Egorova, Albina Kruchinina (Russia) | "Musical Hierotopy in the Medieval Culture: Znamenny Chant and Sacred Spaces"

Lilit Harutyunyan (Armenia) | "The Development of the Armenian Mekhitarist Chant: Transcribed Materials and Oral Tradition"

Gayane Amiraghyan (Armenia) | "The Functions of the Final Tones in the Theoretical Characteristics of the Armenian Eight-Mode System"

 

Fourth Session

TRADITION AND CONTEMPORARINESS

 

Gérard Der Haroutiounian (France) | "Komitas Vardapet’s Unrecognized Creative Modernity According to His Divine Liturgy"

Nelly Avetisyan (Armenia) | "Komitas’s Character in Edgar Hovhannisian’s Ballet “Antouni”"

Alicia Terzian (Argentina) | "The Polycromaticism in the Notation of the Armenian Music"

Nikolay Kostandyan (Armenia) | "Margarit Babayan as an Interpreter of the Folk Songs of Different Nations"