THE LEGACY OF KOMITAS FROM HISTORICAL THE AND CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES

October 7 | Fanny Hensel-Saal, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

 

Greeting Speeches

Univ.-Prof. Dr. h.c. Johannes Meissl, Vice Rector for International Affairs and Art of mdw

H.E. Armen Papikyan, Ambassador of Armenia to Austria

Marko Kölbl, Head of the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology of mdw

Nikolay Kostandyan, Director of the Komitas Museum-Institute Yerevan

Anna Asatryan, Director of the Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

 

Round Table

EPISTEMOLOGIES, INSTITUTIONS, RESEARCH TRADITIONS: FOLK MUSIC RESEARCH AND ETHNOMUSICOLOGY IN AUSTRIA AND ARMENIA.

 

First Session

TRADITIONAL MUSIC: PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE

Mher Navoyan (Armenia) | Syncretic Characteristics of Gusan Art

Iryna Fedun (Ukraine) | Professional Folk Musicians in Ukraine: Current State and Prospects for the Development of the Tradition

Spandita Das (India) | What sustains Baul-Fakir Performances? Reflections on Professionalization, Spiritual Practices and the Notion of Authenticity

 

Second Session 

TRADITIONAL MUSIC: VERNACULAR LIFE

Hasmik Harutyunyan & Hasmik Matikyan (Armenia) | Composition Mechanisms of Lullabies in the Modern Musical Folklore of Shirak

Tatevik Shakhkulyan (Armenia) | Descending melodic Line in the Home and Displacement

Lilit Harutyunyan (Armenia) | Echoes of Captivity: Unveiling Armenian Folk Music through WWI POW Recordings

Nvard Vardanyan & Lusine Hayriyan (Armenia) | The Song of the Frontline in 2020 in the 44-day Artsakh war: From traditional to modern Manifestations

 

Third Session 

KOMITAS’ ACTIVITIES

Lusine Sahakyan (Armenia) | The Role of Komitas in Armenian Women’s musical Education

Lilit Artemyan (Armenia) | Compositional Features and Performing Issues of Komitas’s “Dances”

 

First Workshop
PARERG – TRADITION AND MODERN APPLICATION

Facilitator: Tatevik Shakhkulyan

October 8 | Fanny Hensel-Saal, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

 

Fourth Session

SONIC DIMENSIONS OF DISPLACEMENT, MIGRATION AND DIASPORAS

Francesco Rossetti (Italy) | A musical Father to found the Utopian Homeland: Komitas’s Legacy in the Milanese Armenian Avant-Garde

Sona Nalbandian (USA) | Komitas’s Folk Transcriptions: Sustaining Armenian musical Heritage in the Diaspora

Ani Hakobyan (Armenia) | Bedros Alahaidoian: Recordings from the Armenian Diasporas

 

Fifth Session

FROM HYMNOGRAPHY TO SACRED PERFORMANCE

Christian Poske (Austria) | Decolonizing Santal Hymnology: ‘Advanced far enough to make up Choirs with all four Voices’

Gayane Amiraghyan (Armenia) | New Julfa Chant of the Armenian Sacred Music: Migration and Identity

 

Sixth Session

CULTURE AND IDENTITY

Jacob Olley (UK) | Armenian Music, Print Capitalism and Transimperial Networks in the long 19th Century

Lilit Yernjakyan (Armenia) | Reflections of Ottoman/Turkish Cultural Policy in 19th-20th Century Music Collections: Hornbostel, Komitas, Bartók

 

Second Workshop

TRADITIONAL FOLK DANCES OF AUSTRIA AND ARMENIA

Facilitators: Else Schmidt and Ani Hakobyan