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4.3.15

How Komitas Preserved Armenian Folk Music

Cara Rosehope

In the 1990s, the duduk found its way into movie soundtracks, radio playlists and record collections of the west. Yet as Cara Rosehope writes, the music of Armenia’s national instrument might never have survived the Armenian genocide were it not for Komitas Vartabed—a priest, musician, composer and so much more.