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The history of the Armenian duduk music is dated to the reign of the Armenian king Tigran the Great, who reigned from 95 to 55 B.C. [20] According to ethnomusicologist Dr. Jonathan McCollum, the instrument is depicted in numerous Armenian manuscripts of the Middle Ages, and is "actually the only truly Armenian instrument that's survived through ...
In 2002, he received the WOMEX (World Music Expo) Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a Honorary citizen of Yerevan. A professor at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory, [8] he instructed and nurtured many performers to professional levels of performance in duduk. In 1998, he released an album with a unique duduk quartet he formed.
Armenian folk music is a genre of Armenian music. [1] [2] [3] It usually uses the duduk, the kemenche, and the oud.It is very similar to folk music in the Caucasus [citation needed] and shares many similar songs and traditions with countries around Armenia, namely Georgia and Azerbaijan.
The music of Armenia (Armenian: հայկական երաժշտություն haykakan yerazhshtut’yun) has its origins in the Armenian highlands, dating back to the 3rd millennium BCE, [1] [2] and is a long-standing musical tradition that encompasses diverse secular and religious, or sacred, music (such as the sharakan Armenian chant and taghs, along with the indigenous khaz musical notation).
In this new Ensemble named “Veratsnund”, Armen was a duduk player as well as a director of an orchestra up to 2000. Armen now teaches many students to play duduk. Traveled and gave many concerts in the USA (1988,1995,2005,2006), France (1991-1992), Australia (1995), United Arab Emirates (1997, 2004), Lebanon (1996, 2000), Syria (1989, 2005 ...
The blul (Armenian: բլուլ) is an open end-blown shepherd's flute traditionally played in Armenia and similar in structure to the kaval. [2] It is made of either reed or apricot wood and has eight playing holes, including seven finger holes and one thumb hole. The resulting sound is diatonic, the timbre is described as soft and velvety. [6]
The Moscow International Duduk Festival, MIDF (Armenian: Դուդուկի մոսկովյան միջազգային փառատոն, ԴՄՄՓ; Russian: Московский международный фестиваль дудука, ММФД) is an international annual music festival of Armenian national musical instrument of Duduk held in Moscow.
In Turkish folk music, the zurna joined with the davul to appoint a melodic concomitant to tribal and village folk dance. Today, the zurna is an essential part of Turkish folk music and dance, as well as in Armenian dance, Assyrian folk dance and Kurdish dance. Turkish lore [citation needed] says that Adam, who was moulded from clay, had no soul.