Publications

Komitas Museum-Institute carries out a publishing program dedicated to Komitas’s musical and scholarly heritage in accordance with international academic and musicological standards. Its editions are based on archival manuscripts, authorial sources, and documentary materials, ensuring the scholarly reliability and source value of the published works. Through these publications, the Museum-Institute promotes the preservation, study, and international dissemination of Komitas’s legacy, making it accessible to researchers, performers, and wider audiences.

The Komitas Museum-Institute Yearbook is a scholarly collection of academic articles featuring current research in musicology, Komitas studies, Armenian sacred and folk music, and related disciplines. The publication promotes the dissemination of new research findings, fosters scholarly dialogue, and contributes to the advancement of Armenian musicological studies.

The One Thousand and One Songs publication series of the Komitas Museum-Institute was developed on the basis of the museum’s educational program of the same name. The program was launched in 2016 and has been continuously implemented ever since.

Within the framework of the educational program, participants are introduced to various genres of Armenian folk musical folklore, followed by practical singing instruction. The materials compiled in the One Thousand and One Songs series serve as the primary source for this teaching process.

Each volume of the series is dedicated to a particular genre of folk song. It includes a brief introduction to the genre, a selection of 50 songs, English translations of all Armenian texts, and scholarly transliterations according to the HMB system. This structure is intended to make the material accessible to international audiences as well.

The Komitas Museum-Institute publishes exhibition catalogues accompanying its temporary exhibitions. More than simple records of the displays, these catalogues serve as valuable scholarly resources, bringing together photographs of exhibited materials, archival documents, and research articles by specialists in the fields of musicology, history, cultural studies, and art history.

Each catalogue is designed to preserve and expand the exhibition experience, offering visitors and researchers deeper insight into the themes, personalities, and historical contexts presented in the museum. Through these publications, the Komitas Museum-Institute aims to make the results of its ongoing research and curatorial work accessible to a wider audience and to contribute to the study of Komitas’s life, legacy, and Armenian cultural heritage.