Guest Posted November 7, 2000 Report Share Posted November 7, 2000 OK, where shall I begin.Once my German roomate at the university asked me to put some Armenian music. I had a tape of Aram Asatrian so I put that. His reaction was:"It's the same with Azeri music, no difference except the language". I told him that they stole it from us (I was 20 at that time). Well, he asked me to prove it. Actually, the guy was very well informed of the Caucasus, so traditional Armenian arguments (we're old, we're this and that) didn't work. After a week or so I let him listen to Komitas's Liturgy. He got carried out. There came my argument: "Azeris don't have this kind of music". And though it is a church music, he easily recognised th etnic Armenian sounds in it. I grew up listening to rabiz and it is a part of me. But I never export rabiz. It is for internal use. To those who defend rabiz: If you want any odar to mix you with an Azeri, go ahead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2000 Report Share Posted November 7, 2000 Apri Armene LOL...seriously, that actually made sense in a weird sort of way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2000 Report Share Posted November 7, 2000 Berj lebst du im Deutschland? Oh God Berj if you live in Germany, how can you handle to meet everyday so many stupid Turks, no brain but in Mercedes? If Artur's theory is true, they should be after Russian girls. Actually on Music: Well I wondered what is Rabiz, so I have a hayastantsi CD from Nuneh and I guess It's what you call is Rabiz. So Rabiz should be defined as popular music, and it is very natural that it sounds like Azeri music.There are also Armenian classic music (for example Jivan Gasparian) which sounds similar to the Persian classical music ( however the Persian equivalants usually use Dombäk insted of Dehol and more Ney than Duduk), and had been music of higher classes, kings, Lords, artisans or intellectual. This summer I have bought the Kumitas lthurgy CD in Vank church of Esfahan, this is typically eclessial songs, and according to Armenian CD especialist, Kumitas was influenced by the Europeans, and according to him the eclessial songs of the Armenian church before 19th century were a little bit different, well I don't know much about this, but I think he meant intonation etc... So the conclusion is that music developes, and gets influences from near and far away, and each kind of music has another function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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